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• Forklift operator fined over death;
  
• Labour-hire business fined for unqualified safety assessment; and
  
• Drilling company fined $112k under NSW WHS Act.

• Two employers disregarded request for fall protection; and
  
• Cross-border safety program shifts focus to young workers.

• Class action demonstrates ongoing cost of safety breaches; and
  
• SWA releases long-awaited and revised WHS guides.

An employer was negligent in requiring a new employee to reach over a balustrade to operate a power tool, which caused him to fall, a judge has found.

• Employers reminded of fatigue-related safety duties; and
  
• Regulator launches fall-prevention blitz.

An employer that failed to guard a lift shaft, resulting in a worker falling 12 metres, has been fined just six per cent of the maximum penalty, after a court found other PCBUs didn't comply with its "layers of safety measures".

The "incomplete" CPR performed on a worker who had a cardiac arrest, while working unobserved in an elevated boom lift, didn't break the chain of causation between his employment and subsequent death, a tribunal has found.

An employer that failed to adhere to its safe work method statement, resulting in a worker being permanently injured, is one of a string of Victorian companies fined for OHS breaches this month.

• Three workers electrocuted in a month;
  
• Employers pointed to height-safety guidance; and
  
• Comcare releases GHS tool, as FSC expands online service.

A worker who fell from an allegedly defective ladder has been blocked from suing an employer, after a superior court found his ignorance of the origin of the ladder didn't justify extending the limitation period.