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A school has entered the first enforceable undertaking under New Zealand's new workplace health and safety laws - based on Australia's model WHS Act - after two students suffered lacerations in a scene simulating their throats being cut.

• Four strategies for improving young worker safety; and
  
• Measles alert, solar-panel advice and remote-worker video released in NT.

A judge has reiterated the vulnerability of work experience students and fined a company $250,000, after a 17-year-old student's hand was crushed in a machine.

A sole trader has been handed a record fine under Queensland's mirror WHS Act, after an untrained casual worker was killed. Meanwhile, a dive company has been fined for safety breaches following the death of a UK tourist.

An app-based health and wellbeing program has helped a major retailer's employees "join the dots" between their daily habits and their health, and reduced absences.

• Asbestos and rigging rules waived in NSW and Vic; and
  
• Employers fined over fall and teenager's injuries.

An employer has been found vicariously liable for a s-xual assault on a worker, and ordered to pay part of her $313,316 damages award, after a tribunal rejected its claim that it could not have prevented the incident.

• Hazard register guides fatality-prevention;
  
• Employers fined $105k over crush injuries, major slurry spill; and
  
• Unguarded shredder amputates all fingers on teenager's hand.

A coronial inquest into the death of a worker has recommended a seven-part safe system of work for mobile plant. Meanwhile, another coronial inquiry has warned against developing a cavalier approach to workplace safety over time, after a blasting fatality.

Two employers have been fined, while another company and a manager have been charged, after a worker was scalped and another sustained serious burns in an explosion. Meanwhile, a regulator has called for employers to prioritise safety, after Victoria experienced its worst year for fatalities in nearly a decade.