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• Open window results in $120k safety fine;
  
• Employers fined over fatalities, burns and crush injuries; and
  
• Employer fined for two height-safety breaches after one fall.

Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.

An investigation into the death of a worker on a mobile elevated work platform has found his employer relied on lower-order risk controls, and stressed that special risk assessments are needed for platform tasks involving complex three-dimensional movements.

• Harmonisation of explosives laws examined in SWA paper;
  
• Qld releases new safety guides and scaffold warning;
  
• WA releases draft isolation guide and safety alerts; and
  
• NSW tweaks rules on explosion-protected plant.

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.

• Two employers and director found guilty of asbestos breaches;
  
• Prime contractor, consignor and driver fined for safety breaches; and
  
• Five WHS Codes of Practice amended in ACT.

An employer's permit-to-work system for hazardous tasks was "routinely not followed" by employees, resulting in a worker's death, the Western Australian Coroner has found.

• Plant modification causes Victorian worker's death;
  
• Safety inspectors issue 1300 notices in single WA campaign; and
  
• DMP issues warnings after "horseplay" injury and other incidents.

Workplace falls were the main cause of fatalities in the construction industry over the 12 years to 2013-14, with falls from roofs and ladders causing more than half of the deaths, according to a new Safe Work Australia report.

• DuPont fined after four workers gassed to death in US;
  
• UK employer and individual fined over fatal fall; and
  
• Australian regulators issue fatality alerts.