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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.

• Burnout benefits axed and premiums up under Vic overhaul;
  
• Employer faces $200k penalty under blood monitoring charges; and
  
• WHS training deadline approaching in ACT.

An employer that was effectively forced, by a judge's erroneous ruling on a fatality, to plead guilty to breaching regulations for high-risk work, has been fined $420,000 after a retrial, saving it $430,000 in penalties.

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

A worker who has not been able to work since a stress-related incident has lost his bid for reinstatement, unsuccessfully arguing his dismissal was unfair because it occurred at a time when there were conflicting medical opinions on his capacity.

An employer fined $400,000 over the death of a lone worker has lost its appeal against its conviction and sentence, with a court affirming it was open to a jury to conclude the company should have implemented a two-person rule for a dangerous task.

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

A major employer has been fined $180,000 for failing to require workers to wear respiratory protective equipment, and other omissions, at a site where an administrative employee developed silicosis. A union described the penalty as "loose pocket change" that won't deter unsafe practices.

An employer has been fined $350,000 after a jury found it guilty of offences relating to a fatal instruction to work in the dark. Meanwhile, a utility company has been fined over a degloving incident, and two organisations have been charged after a child drowned.