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• $300k safety fine sends warning on pre-start checks;
  
• Three safety Codes of Practice revoked in WA; and
  
• Comcare and WA safety awards open.

• Director faces jail under recklessness charge; and
  
• Employer fined over poor safety culture and severe injuries.

• Company charged with multiple breaches after two taxi deaths;
  
• Tougher driver-distraction laws commencing in Vic soon;
  
• Two in five white-card applications involve "fake" training; and
  
• Help SWA shape national WHS month.

In a WHS case involving the deaths of two teenage students from overseas, a court has imposed a penalty much higher than that recommended by the prosecution, stressing that unlike workers, children are particularly vulnerable to business-related hazards because they haven't been trained to recognise or mitigate risks.

A Melbourne business and its directors have been fined, and a worker compensated, after the worker claimed he was subjected "to unreasonable health and safety risks because of his race" and unfairly sacked.

Labour providers cannot rely on other companies to ensure the health and safety of their workers, a judge has stressed in fining a PCBU over two incidents (including a fatality) that occurred just weeks apart.

• Workplace manslaughter charges laid against related companies; and
  
• Safety compliance directives follow mobile plant incidents.

An Australian Border Force worker's bid for compensation for depression and anxiety has been rejected, with a tribunal highlighting the traumatic circumstances of her personal life. It also found her inexperience impaired her ability to accept reasonable supervision.

• Numerous duty holders fined, common safety breaches revealed; and
  
• World-first WHS guidelines for cobots released in NSW.

A PCBU has been fined $134,000, and it two directors $33,000 each, for failing to "comply with their basic obligations", after a young worker was pinned under 1.2 tonnes of steel sheets when parts of a structure collapsed.