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• Interaction of WHS laws and Australian Standards explained; and
  
• Fatigue breaches committed through 19.5 hours of work.

• EU commitment tops $932k after labour-hire worker struck; and
  
• WHS benefits of new hybrid vehicle highlighted.

• Employer fined $390k over fatality and site-preservation breaches; and
  
• Vehicle "blind spots" increased prior to workplace death.

In a long-running case, an engineering company has been convicted and fined $250,000 for failing to ensure two workers were actively supervised while they helped a crane perform decommissioning work at another company's site.

• OHS fines up in Vic, premium hike confirmed;
  
• Supply chain probe demanded after second school bus crash; and
  
• Motion to push for engineered stone ban blocked by NSW Labor.

• Worker faces jail for reckless mobile phone breach; and
  
• Electrical safety overhaul to include WHS alignment in Qld.

• Parliamentarians told to lead by example on WHS; and
  
• Traffic safety rules examined in forklift prosecution.

A worker was distracted by the death of a colleague, and fatigued from 26 consecutive days of work, when he was "cleared" as "fit" by an unqualified counsellor to perform a dangerous loading task, and then killed in an exclusion zone, a coronial inquest has found.

One of three PCBUs charged over a double fall - an incident that has already attracted $800,000 in fines - has escaped a reckless conduct conviction, in a ruling on its duty to labourers it referred to another company.

A worker who alleged she wasn't provided with hearing protection in noisy areas in her 30 years with Qantas, has won her industrial deafness claim, with a commission rejecting the airline's intermittent-noise case.