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A machine operator who contracted chronic sinusitis while working in dusty conditions at a tip in Darwin, has been found to be permanently incapacitated by the condition.

• Manager with bullying "injury" ordered to repay $100k;
  
• WHS regulator lays fatality charge and issues blade alert; and
  
• NT amends WHS clause on "white cards", reports powerline incidents.

The jailing of a business owner for industrial manslaughter, the commencement of a mirror WHS Act, legislative changes across most jurisdictions, and a host of judgments on work-related COVID matters, are just some of the issues covered by OHS Alert's first major review report of the year.

• Workplace vaccine rules stepped up and eased in respective regions; and
  
• GPS and anti-violence strategies among work safety winners in Vic.

• Man sentenced for reckless forklift operations;
  
• Trailer rethink demanded after fatal falls and conviction; and
  
• NDIS incidents prompt WHS warning.

• WHS Act, manslaughter laws and better deterrents commence in WA; and
  
• WHS-style electrical safety laws pass NT Parliament.

A PCBU that apparently failed, among other things, to conduct a risk assessment for recovering a broken down mobile machine, could be fined more than $10 million, after being charged with the industrial manslaughter of a worker in a Northern Territory first.

An important ruling on the WHS consultation duties around COVID-19 vaccines, several reckless conduct cases and a string of legislative developments were among the safety and workers' comp highlights of the final quarter of 2021. Read this article for everything you need to know from the past three months.

This is OHS Alert's final article of the year, and we're leaving you with a review of some of our most-viewed stories from the fourth quarter of 2021.

• COVID, cancers and PTSD added to deemed diseases list; and
  
• New electrical safety laws mirror NT's WHS Act.