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In an important ruling on time limits for starting common law actions in Western Australia, a Federal Court full bench has found in favour of an applicant who began his case before receiving written notification from the Workers Compensation Commission as required under the Act.

• Register now for this week's health and wellbeing webinar;
  
• Employers and OHS managers invited to self-assess workplace safety; and
  
• Regulator prosecutes unsafe employer and targets noisy workplaces.

A NSW employer and its director have been ordered to pay more than $110,000 in fines and costs for illegally dumping asbestos and other waste, while another employer has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 for exposing workers in a neighbouring industrial estate to harmful fumes. In Western Australia, an employer has been fined for allowing work to be performed with unsafe tools.

• Employer fined $180k after crane crash injures workers;
  
• Scissor lift death costs NZ employer $138k; and
  
• New safety boss announced for WorkSafe Victoria.

Two national employers are facing category 2 safety charges, in the second and third criminal proceedings filed under the Commonwealth jurisdiction's mirror WHS Act. Meanwhile, a Western Australian company has been fined for height-safety breaches.

• Employer's disregard for notices costs worker three fingers; and
  
• More CFMEU officials charged with entry breaches.

An apprentice who has a 70 per cent whole person impairment as a result of being engulfed in flames at a work birthday party, where a large amount of free alcohol was supplied, has successfully sued his employer.

A worker who claims she was bullied at work on a daily basis has been denied damages, after a judge found the alleged abuse would have been "so consistently unpleasant" that it was "inconceivable" witnesses wouldn't have intervened.

• SWA amends 'inaccurate' WHS Code and other documents;
  
• Agencies release fatality reports and alerts; and
  
• WA employer fined $50k for unsafe fuel storage.

A Western Australian employer has been fined over a crane collision that caused a contractor to suffer complete paraplegia, and that could have been prevented with a $2000 investment.