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A major NSW employer has avoided a WHS prosecution, involving a scissor attack that injured several workers, by entering a WHS undertaking, with a State-record spend of more than $3 million, aimed at tackling work-related violence through "whole of system thinking".

A local council has committed to overhauling its contractor management practices, and developing an automated WHS induction program, after being accused, along with two other WHS duty holders, of contraventions resulting in a powerlines incident and serious injuries.

Two large companies that were accused of workplace health and safety breaches, after a cyclist was killed while riding past their site, have avoided prosecution by agreeing to spend a total of $1.6 million on safety measures and other initiatives.

John Holland Pty Ltd has been granted permission to enter a $1.2 million enforceable undertaking in lieu of prosecution over a worker's seven-metre fall through a hole on a major infrastructure project, and will develop a freely available virtual reality app for identifying height risks.

A PCBU's $504,000 enforceable undertaking has provided valuable insight into the wide range of workplace issues that attract the attention of WHS inspectors, including where staff smoke their cigarettes.

A PCBU accused of breaching its WHS duty to control ignition sources, at the time of an injury-causing explosion, has entered a $624,400 undertaking and spent nearly $180,000 on WHS rectifications.

An employer could have prevented the severe crush injuries sustained by a worker preparing a large workplace vehicle for greasing by ensuring the task was undertaken solely by the vehicle's operator, an enforceable undertaking document has shown.

Two company directors who were charged with due diligence breaches, after a contract driver was killed, have entered enforceable undertakings with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.

A WHS regulator has rejected a PCBU's bid to enter an enforceable undertaking in lieu of prosecution, after considering the significant impact its alleged offences had on a worker, and its "poor compliance history".

• Ladders are "the last option", PCBUs told after death;
  
• Rio Tinto's former HSE chief appointed SWA chair; and
  
• PCBUs' "attitudes" to affect WHS-undertaking decisions in NSW.