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• UV-related WHS duties apply on cloudy days;
  
• Older workplace buildings targeted in SA asbestos blitz; and
  
• Old workplace safety Code revoked in WA.

This major user-friendly report looks back at all the major and most interesting workplace safety and compensation developments from the start of the calendar year, including the ministerial vote on industrial manslaughter, multiple manslaughter charges, the widespread introduction of new psychosocial risk regulations, and a major WHS case involving the deaths of overseas students.

• Company officer charged with bullying and causing breaches;
  
• First anti-harassment audit completed in mining campaign; and
  
• Injury fraudster sentenced after probe into ambulance calls.

• Employer sentenced to undertaking after scaffolding collapse; and
  
• New WHS regulator, healthy workplace service for employers announced.

A PCBU has been handed a pre-discount penalty of $300,000, after its "unexplained disregard" for guarding requirements led to the amputation of five of a teenage worker's fingers. Meanwhile, a repeat offender's latest safety fines have been increased significantly, after a regulator appealed.

A WHS regulator has revealed that it has received hundreds of complaints about the conditions of workplace toilets, and highlighted the association between substandard facilities and poor safety outcomes.

• WHS laws around hazardous crane lifts explained; and
  
• Safety enforcement action captures company profits.

A court has warned against undertaking "cursory" safety inspections for height work, in finding a PCBU's WHS breaches, relating to a fatal fall, warranted a $500,000 penalty.

A PCBU is installing a GPS tracking and vehicle immobilisation system to lock out unqualified crane operators, and training supervisors on geotechnical ground conditions, under a WHS undertaking involving a crane-toppling incident.

A range of WHS amendments, including some improving harmonisation, are set to follow the root-and-branch review of SafeWork SA, but they won't include the softening of an entry rule pertaining to health and safety representatives, with the State Government emphatically rejecting a recommendation around this area.