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A machine operator was crushed to death while cleaning an industrial blender more than 12 months after an audit identified a lack of guarding on the plant as a "high priority" issue, the NSW Industrial Court has heard.

Senior lawyer calls for laws to "stop bullying in its tracks"; Safety trainer fined $121K after explosion injures six people; Victorian employers to pay $110K over missing handrail; and WA employer fined for interlock and training failures after amputation.

Employers urged to enforce seatbelt use after crane death; and Falling objects claim the most lives as workplace fatality rate increases.

Resources giant Santos Ltd has been fined $84,000 for safety failings that led to an explosion at a South Australian gas processing facility - nearly six years after it was first charged over the incident.

Failing to repair an excavator's broken reversing alarm and flashing light contributed to the partial amputation of a worker's arm and has cost a NSW contractor nearly $200,000 in fines.

A Western Australian contractor has been handed a record-equalling workplace health and safety fine over the January 2008 prison-van death of the Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward.

Jail warning issued after OHS inspector assaulted; Workers urged to reach out to colleagues after widespread stress revealed; Tasmania releases construction safety guide and other publications; and Alert released after worker suffers microwave burn.

Western Australian employer fined for isolation failure after 15-year-old permanently injured; and Western Australia and the Northern Territory step up synthetic cannabis bans.

Near-maximum safety fines handed to a South Australian employer and a director following the 2006 Gladstone factory explosion - which killed three workers - are likely to be reduced, after the Industrial Relations Court found the cause of the explosion was not as clear cut as a magistrate found it to be.

The Federal Court has imposed the maximum fine of $242,000 on the manufacturer of the Malu Sara, describing the Commonwealth-commissioned vessel, which took five lives when it sank in the Torres Strait, as "dangerously unseaworthy".