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The prosecutions of a PCBU and an officer have sent a reminder to other duty holders that they must proactively guard against acts of carelessness or inattentiveness, including by specialist contractors.

A worker has overturned her conviction, and suspended jail sentence, for fraudulent injury compensation claims, with a court finding a prosecutor failed to disprove the possibility the woman's mother made the claims without her knowledge.

Employers have been reminded of two WHS prosecutions over a heat-stroke death, and of the need to conduct frequent weather-related risk assessments, with temperatures soaring in parts of Australia this week.

A commission has quashed a WHS notice alleging an organisation did not have an adequate assessment process to protect workers from the risk of violence.

A 92-year-old Italian who lives on a Mediterranean island, and claims his dust disease resulted from a working holiday in Australia 70 years ago, is a "worker" within the meaning of Queensland's injury laws, a commission has ruled.

The WHS regulations in Queensland have been amended to improve the harmonisation of Australia's safety laws, while the State has also tightened its "white card" safety training requirements.

• Workers resorting to alcohol in time of widespread stress;
  
• WHS projects tackle language barriers and burnout in NSW; and
  
• New WHS prosecutor appointed in Qld.

A business manager who introduced workplace safety brainstorming sessions, which led to the development of a device that eliminates the need for workers to enter high-risk areas on roads, has received a major WHS award.

A worker who threw a six-kilogram object from an elevated work platform in a "moment of madness", seriously injuring an apprentice, has been found guilty of recklessness and handed a suspended prison sentence.

A commission has overturned a decision to deny compensation to a worker exposed to p-rnographic material and abusive outbursts from her manager, rejecting a regulator's claims that the two had a civil relationship and the worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable management action.