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An employer has been convicted and fined after a worker fell three metres while performing a task that was previously outsourced to an expert company, while another employer has been fined after a worker's face was lacerated by an unguarded powered hand tool.

• Cheap controls could have prevented 19-metre near miss;
  
• PCBUs warned after fuel-fire burns and catastrophic engine failure;
  
• "Alarming" safety reports prompt young worker audit in ACT; and
  
• ACT restructures WHS administration.

A PCBU has been convicted and fined for WHS offences after an offsite worker used the wrong chemical to clean a machine, resulting in a man sustaining facial burns. Meanwhile, another employer has been fined after a worker fell off an unguarded platform.

A site supervisor and an operations manager have been fined for ignoring workers' safety concerns and directing concrete panels to be placed next to powerlines. Meanwhile, a regulator has issued a height warning, following a series of falls, prosecutions and category 1 WHS charges.

• Workplace bullies targeted in three-year campaign;
  
• Six tips to safer scaffolding; and
  
• Safety alerts issued in six jurisdictions.

An individual PCBU has been fined over a customer's death, in another case considering penalties from multiple harmonised jurisdictions.

The harmonised WHS Act in NSW is being amended to include new penalty notice offences to crackdown on high recidivism rates, and to give safety regulators extraterritorial powers.

In the first WHS penalty handed down in the South Australian Employment Tribunal, an employer has been fined after a worker was struck by a forklift. Meanwhile, three Victorian employers have been fined a total of $110,000 after a spate of incidents, including one where a worker was struck by an object that fell 13 storeys.

A site supervisor has been fined for failing to act on an identified height risk, after a worker fell five metres, while an assessor has been fined for certifying applicants for high-risk work licences as competent after they failed their tests.

• Zero tolerance promised for height-safety blitz in NSW;
  
• Dangerous goods restrictions increased in WA; and
  
• Injured ADF members' access to rehab accelerated.