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• 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.

An employer breached it legislative safety duties, in the lead up to the death of a manager, by failing to instruct a supplier to pack containers in a manner that allowed them to be emptied safely, a court has ruled. Meanwhile, Australian companies have been urged to take a more ethical approach to their supply chains, on the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster.

• Employer sentenced to undertaking after scaffolding collapse; and
  
• New WHS regulator, healthy workplace service for employers announced.

The workplace safety fine imposed on a company in relation to a triple road fatality has been increased by nearly 70 per cent, with an appeals court majority finding its "failure to adopt a more rigorous testing regime" for vehicle components involved a "significant departure" from its duty to non-workers.

A company accused of failing to ensure a hazardous task was performed at a safer time of the day, or under floodlights, has been fined $250,000 over the death of a jockey, in a case highlighting the breadth of workplace health and safety laws.

A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount penalty of $300,000, after its "unexplained disregard" for guarding requirements led to the amputation of five of a teenage worker's fingers. Meanwhile, a repeat offender's latest safety fines have been increased significantly, after a regulator appealed.

A company has been found guilty of safety breaches and fined $400,000, over a high-profile incident where a large bucket of concrete fell from a crane and killed a man working below the suspended load. Another employer has been fined $300,000 after a worker was struck by a forklift.

• Critical safety information not relayed to worker; and
  
• Workplace safety "warrior" among Vic award winners.