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A PCBU that has been battling fatality-related WHS charges for three years has had a minor victory in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, which agreed to vary the adverse publicity order against the business.

• Five deaths in four days trigger WHS compliance warning;
  
• SWA issues update on WHS changes for stone ban; and
  
• New WHS Code commences, fulfils Dreamworld recommendation.

The final quarter of 2023 was marked by wholesale WHS changes affecting all duty holders. This report examines the amendments, as well as changes to other laws and all the need-to-know caselaw from the period.

A sacked worker has failed to block an employer from summonsing two WHS inspectors to give evidence on whether he unsafely caused a forklift crash.

A court has slated a national employer's inadequate inspections for wear, tear and corrosion, after a worker's legs dropped into and became trapped in moving machinery.

A company director and three PCBUs, including an importer, have been handed pre-discount WHS fines totalling $1.25 million, after a worker suffered finger amputations on a machine previously shut down by a regulator.

Two PCBUs have been convicted and fined a total of more than $530,000 for multiple WHS contraventions, after a heavy object fell and smashed a glass atrium roof, seriously injuring a site worker and a passing courier.

A WHS regulator will enforce the utilisation of risk assessments for psychosocial hazards in psychologically dangerous workplaces, under one of 18 recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into NSW's workers' compensation system.

A principal contractor that failed to adhere to its own safety inspection regime, when unscheduled out-of-sequence work was carried out, has been fined $412,500 after a worker was left with devastating injuries.

A WHS regulator has vowed to take a zero-tolerance approach, involving prohibition notices and hefty non-compliance penalties, in a new multi-sector blitz aimed at preventing a "false sense of security" around dust.