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Employers have been urged to identify all powerlines at their workplaces, including around entry and exit points, after a company was convicted and fined over an electrocution. Employers have also been warned about the presence of asbestos in workplace fire doors, following exposure incidents.

• Senate unites against deadly workplace hazard; and
  
• Another state commits to WHS stone ban.

• Safety fine quadrupled after expert submission on dust; and
  
• New WHS clauses and Codes being enforced in ACT.

A major company and a state government are among the latest entities to formerly commit to phasing out silicosis-causing engineered stone and implementing a WHS ban on the substance.

An employer drove a pregnant worker to resign with its persistent and unreasonable insistence that she had to attend an independent medical examination (IME) before it could provide her with a "safe job", a commission has found, paving the way for her to seek an unfair dismissal remedy.

• Employer fined $551k over rock fall and hazardous rescue;
  
• SafeWork discusses Qantas case, targets high-risk sector; and
  
• New ASEA chief to have broader role.

• WHS phase-outs by IKEA and others fast-track end of deadly stone;
  
• Dozens of toilet-related WHS breaches found in SA blitz; and
  
• Worksite bystander killed.

• WHS minister reveals plan to push for engineered stone ban;
  
• Silica phase of "Clean Lungs" campaign launched; and
  
• Energy Australia Yallourn accused of more safety breaches.

• Senators seek to fast-track work safety provisions;
  
• SWA launches interactive WHS tools for two industries; and
  
• New review aims to reduce injury premiums in NSW.

The workplace health and safety contraventions of the company that managed the New Zealand volcanic island that erupted and killed 22 tourists and workers in 2019, included its failure to respond to a 2016 eruption by re-evaluating its risk assessment processes, a judge has found.