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• OHS Regulations amended in Vic; and
  
• PCBU and officer charged with plant and document breaches after death.

• Extended workers' comp and mobile phone laws pass in NSW;
  
• Premium rates for 2018-19 revealed in Vic; and
  
• CoR-related SMS tools and RIS on automated vehicles released.

The safety fine imposed on a host employer that required workers to clean energised equipment has been tripled on appeal, while a company has been convicted and fined for failing to provide information to a regulator for its investigation into two deaths.

A major employer has become the second entity to be convicted of WHS offences relating to a load toppling from a forklift driven by an unlicensed labour-hire worker.

Two employers have been convicted and fined for WHS offences, after a 417-visa worker who wasn't provided with translated work instructions sustained serious arm injuries.

An employer has been fined $260,000 after a worker fell from a broken maintenance plank and died, while a regulator has called for duty holders to properly secure loads on lifting machinery, after another worker was killed.

• PCBU fined $500k, but parent company acquitted;
  
• Confined-space fine increased by 83%;
  
• Record-low workers' comp premium rate announced in SA; and
  
• Unsafe labour-hire firms warned at launch of Qld licensing scheme.

• Specialised workers' comp scheme extended in NSW;
  
• PC inquiring into veterans' workers' comp arrangements; and
  
• SWA voting on psychological health guidance soon.

Labour-hire licensing and workers' comp Bills have passed Victoria's Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament, while NSW has made a declaration on WHS certificates of competence, and Western Australia has published a new Code of Practice for emergency management.

A labour-hire company and a host employer have been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in damages to a worker who was injured when he was forced to adopt an extreme posture to keep up with a fast-paced production line.