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A teenage apprentice was killed while undertaking a task that should have been performed by a "competent person" within the meaning of a WHS Code, a court has found in fining his host employer $405,000.

An appeals court has upheld a $1 million-plus injury damages award against a company, as well as a finding that the company's control of another entity extended to the supervision of OHS matters.

• Safety regulator outlines four key CoR responsibilities;
  
• Employer charged, and others warned after $350k fine; and
  
• WorkSafe commences long-planned quad bike crackdown.

A company director has been jailed over the electrocution of a 20-year-old worker, while an inquest into another young worker's electrocution has slammed the safety investigation and the fact that cost issues have thwarted mandating residual current devices.

The globalisation of supply chains and sending company functions offshore are among the major emerging WHS challenges identified in a blueprint for reducing serious workplace injuries and deaths.

An employer has been convicted and fined $350,000, after its supervisor left the keys in a skid steer loader and a non-worker was killed in the vehicle. Meanwhile, a contracting company and one of its employees have been fined for failing to ensure the safety of an apprentice, with the employee receiving harsher penalties than his employer.

Two PCBUs and their directors have been charged with WHS breaches, and face fines of up to $3.6 million, after a teenage worker fell three metres and wasn't provided with immediate medical assistance.

• Gas and noise warning issued after confined-space fatalities;
  
• Regulator issues 763 safety notices and directions in one program; and
  
• Two regulators merge in WA.

• Two deaths in two days prompts young-worker warning;
  
• PFAS bans take effect in Australian first; and
  
• Workers "repeatedly exposed" to heavy metals.

A second employer has been fined over guarding breaches that led to an Irish backpacker being scalped and losing an ear, while a scaffolding company has been fined heavily after an apprentice sustained debilitating electric-shock injuries in a no-go zone.