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• Exercise due diligence through Safe Work Month activities; and
  
• Worker fined over fatal reversing-plant incident.

A PCBU has been prosecuted and fined for failing to ensure forklift loads were properly secured when raised onto high racking, while a company and one of its workers have been fined for breaching safety laws and the "Wiring Rules".

In a case examining WHS clauses on the provision of PPE, a commission has stayed an improvement notice blocking a university from charging students to be fit tested for masks, finding it is arguable the students are the "workers" of placement providers rather than the university.

A company that failed to implement a proper inspection regime for the overhead cranes in a building it leased to a business has been fined for WHS breaches, after debris fell from one of the cranes and struck a worker. Another company has been fined for a string of safety and dangerous goods breaches identified by an investigation into a worker's serious burns.

• WHS intimidation fine and fatality alerts issued in Qld;
  
• New stair-height rule commences under Qld WHS Code;
  
• WHS changes and criminal checks commencing in NSW;
  
• Truck-fire-prevention guide should be used by all fleets: NSW EPA; and
  
• Occupational licensing arrangements tweaked in NT.

One of the growing number of employers charged with COVID-related workplace health and safety breaches has been sentenced in Victoria. In Queensland, a PCBU has been fined after its failure to act on safety complaints led to a worker suffering serious wrist injuries.

A company that was fined $250,000 over safety contraventions that led to a worker suffering an electric shock from powerlines, has had its appeal rejected for the second time, with a court highlighting the control measures the PCBU failed to implement.

A clinical nurse has been ordered to undergo an independent medical examination after the hospital at which she worked became concerned that her epileptic seizures were a risk to patients and other staff.

In a case providing an important reminder of the WHS duties around the interaction of paid workers and volunteers, a not-for-profit business has been fined over a forklift incident that broke a volunteer's pelvis and foot.

In the latest chapter of a long-running and acrimonious dispute between an employer and a union, an appeals court has rejected the former's renewed claim that the latter is not eligible to enter its premises to investigate suspected WHS contraventions.