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A labour-hire company should have insisted on a remote site being inspected for safety hazards before sending workers there, the Western Australian Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled in ordering the company to pay 20 per cent of a $1 million damages bill.

Tasmanian employers that believe they haven't been given enough time to come to grips with harmonised safety laws have been assured - by the State Government - that the new legislation is unlikely to take effect in July this year.

Harmonisation guide on due diligence and emergency services Q&A released; and Unions call for four-day weekend as Queensland issues BBQ warning.

Employers, workers and volunteers have been assured that the duty to ensure workplace safety is much the same as it was prior to harmonisation, and that regulators are unlikely to increase prosecution rates under the new regime.

A NSW employer has been fined $225,000 after a worker was fatally crushed while working underneath a loader with no park brake. Also in this article, two Victorian employers have been fined for traffic-management breaches following a death.

An insolvency practitioner appointed to a PCBU must exercise due diligence under harmonised OHS laws, lawyers have advised. Also in this article, lawyers have outlined what the new laws mean for the Queensland construction industry.

Drunk and violent safety manager fails to overturn dismissal; and Regulators issue alerts after explosion deaths and other incidents.

"Discontinuity" between training and work site caused wharf death; Victorians fined over chemical spill, house collapse and neglected notice; Second safety trainer convicted over Northern Territory explosion; and Western Australian employer fined for unsafe maintenance work.

The CFMEU's claim that it should organise elections for safety representatives at a Queensland mine - to ensure representatives' independence - was not supported by the "inadequately drafted" provisions of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act, the Supreme Court has found.

Minister rejects Abetz's 16-day harmonisation claim; WA to eliminate "uncertainty" over workers' comp insurance for contractors; and Comcare releases guides on safety for workers travelling overseas.