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Two company directors could be jailed for up to five years, after they and their respective businesses became the first entities charged with reckless conduct under Queensland's WHS laws.

A worker has been fined for killing a colleague with a raised forklift attachment, in the latest of a string of safety prosecutions of individuals.

Employers can improve safety through the "moral choice" of reducing job demands and increasing resources, while workers must take responsibility for their own work-life balance, according to recommendations from a recent worrying survey of principals.

• Asbestos and rigging rules waived in NSW and Vic; and
  
• Employers fined over fall and teenager's injuries.

An employer has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after its director identified a serious safety risk at a worksite, but then left without ensuring the necessary controls were implemented before work commenced.

• One-thousand inspections targeting falling objects;
  
• Work adjustments needed after stillbirths; and
  
• PTSD treatment times slashed in national trial.

A worker who incorrectly lowered a loading platform more than 300 times in 18 months, before falling onto a concrete floor, was "wholly responsible" for his injuries, a court has ruled.

An employer that relied on a "specialised expert" contractor to ensure site safety has been convicted and fined $120,000, after a worker fell six metres, while the "more culpable" contractor has escaped conviction, entering an enforceable undertaking instead.

• Start date flagged for new CoR laws;
  
• Customer injury ends in $90k safety fine; and
  
• Employer defied prohibition notice.

An employer that had extensive safety systems, but failed to adopt two processes that could have prevented a worker from being fatally crushed by falling cargo, has been fined $150,000.