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PCBUs have been reminded of their WHS duties to children, after one entity was fined over a drowning death and another over a forklift joyride. Meanwhile, the ACT has launched a campaign against workplace violence, and reminded employers of the new WHS duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault.

• Company fined $600k after three workers injured on island;
  
• Hierarchy-of-control amendments made in NT; and
  
• WHS inspectors target toilets and fall risks in SA.

Safe Work Australia has published a new model WHS Code of Practice for tower cranes, which does not include an explicit ban - recently applied by the ACT - on a hazardous method for lifting loads.

• Lendlease fined over exclusion-zone failure;
  
• Early planning and consultation urged after crane fatality; and
  
• Injury premiums up again in Qld.

A company manager has been fined $60,000 for neglect, in the last of a series of safety cases involving a teenager's death, a high-level corporate penalty and a former Olympic boxer who was recently jailed for more than a decade in New Zealand.

• Judge's WHS referral triggers government action; and
  
• Power tool causes four serious injuries in five weeks.

A PCBU that failed to properly assess the risks posed by its new work system and equipment has been handed a pre-discount fine of $240,000, after a worker fell and was impaled by a steel bar.

• Employer fined $390k over fatality and site-preservation breaches; and
  
• Vehicle "blind spots" increased prior to workplace death.

A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount fine of $540,000, following the death of a subcontracted site manager in a 19-metre fall, with a court finding it failed to enforce both its, and the subcontractor's, safe work method statements.

A major employer has been handed a pre-discount WHS fine of $800,000, after a worker was electrocuted just nine weeks after a similar incident that "should have been a significant wake-up call".