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• 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.

A company director has been handed a $13,000 costs and charity bill for ignoring and then screaming at and intimidating a workplace health and safety investigator, who was attempting to serve a notice for the production of documents relating to suspected safety contraventions.

An injured worker has failed, in a superior court, to overturn a medical panel decision that she has a whole person impairment of zero per cent. She contended it couldn't be zero because her scans showed "some sort of pathology".

A company charged with safety breaches, after a subcontractor who didn't realise he was working at height dropped a tool 40 metres down a shaft onto another worker, has committed to spending more than $240,000 on safety undertakings.

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

• Complying with WHS consultation duties in outsourcing set-ups; and
  
• Allegedly unsafe chair attracts workplace safety charge.

• 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.

An employer ignored its own alternative "rehabilitative" paths to termination for alcohol and drug breaches, which, if applied, would "very likely" have prevented a worker's death, a coronial inquiry has found.