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Assigning "human supervisors" for drones will mitigate some of the emerging safety risks associated with the increasing use of the aerial vehicles in workplace settings, according to Europe's peak safety agency.

• Company charged with endangering customers, after fatality;
  
• Inspectors issue hundreds of WHS notices in three-day blitz; and
  
• WHS resources for new audiometric duties in NSW released.

• WHS tool for extreme weather launched, applies to city PCBUs;
  
• Seven more safety Codes under review in NSW;
  
• WHS Codes made and varied in NT, new safety laws delayed; and
  
• Roll-away alert issued in SA.

A large company that allowed an untrained and unlicensed worker to operate a forklift daily, and committed multiple breaches of its own safety systems, has been convicted and fined $300,000 after a man suffered traumatic injuries.

A PCBU has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches that involved a worker's decision to operate mobile plant that wasn't fitted with FOPS - falling object protective structures.

• Worker sentenced for fatal recklessness after remittal;
  
• WHS initiatives build on Gayle's Law in SA; and
  
• Are you sending your ACT workers to legitimate asbestos courses?

Measures for preventing workplace fatigue range from providing appropriate staffing levels to digitally locking out workers, according to WHS lawyers, who warn the issue is dangerously overlooked in many organisations, and highlight a safety prosecution that reads like a "how-to" guide to tackling fatigue.

• SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit for common carcinogen;
  
• SWA makes hundreds of changes to chemical info system;
  
• WHS guides for pre-2004 buildings and roll-aways released; and
  
• Dreamworld-inspired WHS Code made in Qld.

• Defence faces more WHS charges, this time over two deaths; and
  
• Cancer compensation Bill follows Opposition pressure in Tas.

A PCBU's failure to risk assess how its work interacted with neighbouring properties, public access areas and obstructions, posed "extreme" harm to others, a court has found in convicting and fining it $300,000.