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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.

• Director and manager face jail over arm amputation; and
  
• Safe-rates provisions included in Bill that increases WHS penalties.

A PCBU, with a "haphazard" approach towards its safety duty, has been handed a pre-discount fine of $600,000 after a precariously balanced 800kg excavator bucket fell from the back of a truck and fatally crushed a labourer.

• "Most egregious" injury fraudster jailed for 22 months; and
  
• High-risk licence fraud prompts reminder of WHS obligations.

A court has criticised the poor WHS knowledge of an employer and its managers, finding they unlawfully forced union officials to provide a new right-of-entry notice in order to inspect a suspected safety breach they observed while investigating another safety issue.

An employer has been deemed vicariously liable for the actions of a worker who negligently failed to safely reverse a forklift, causing a collision that injured one of his colleagues.

• Employer fined $320k over reversing-vehicle breach and death;
  
• SWA launches stats site with case study, flags WHS changes; and
  
• Fair Work amendments to protect FDV victims from discrimination.

• Tougher spotter and guarding rules made for EWPs; and
  
• WHS blitz targets violence and manual handling in aged care.

• Safety fines top $600k after post-fatality breaches; and
  
• "Duty to provide work" overhauled in draft SA RTW Bill.

A worker could be jailed for up to five years, after being charged with recklessly endangering a colleague who was killed by a toppling forklift load. Meanwhile, a safety regulator has issued a special warning to "pranksters", after five workers sustained burns in a gas explosion.