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• WHS regulator targeting notification failings;
  
• Business owner faces jail under WHS intimidation charge; and
  
• Two workers hospitalised with heat-related illnesses.

• Effective anti-burnout strategy identified; and
  
• Advisory group "key" to eliminating harassment in NSW workplaces.

A PCBU has failed to overturn its fatality-related WHS conviction in an appeals court, in a case demonstrating the key role that updating safety documents to reflect new practices plays in preventing incidents.

A PCBU has successfully challenged the size of its penalties for failing to comply with WHS notices, with a court finding the fines were too severe given the company "took significant steps" and spent a lot of money attempting to achieve compliance.

• Industrial manslaughter timetable announced in NSW; and
  
• WHS activities to "beef up" under new NSW arrangements.

SafeWork NSW has outlined a range of workplace factors that increase the risk of s-xual harassment, and explained what businesses can do to prevent it, in its inaugural four-year Respect at Work Strategy.

A PCBU has been fined $540,000 over a worker's death, after unsuccessfully seeking to reduce its penalty by arguing its electrical safety breaches did not cause the electrocution.

Significant amendments were made to workplace health and safety laws in every Australian jurisdiction in the third quarter of 2023, including many increasing penalties and making it easier to prosecute duty holders. This major report - the only one of its kind in the country - examines all the need-to-know legislative changes, workers' compensation developments and court decisions from July, August and September.

Two major pieces of legislation have passed the NSW and Western Australian Parliaments: a WHS Bill nearly tripling fines and doubling jail terms for category-1 breaches, and a complete workers' compensation rewrite that has been a decade in the making.

• Platform fined for 1,000 training breaches as WHS Bill progresses; and
  
• PCBU fined $440k over skier's death, safety report ignored.