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• High Court's urination ruling provides "comfort" to multiple sectors; and
  
• Executives reminded of harassment-reporting duties with new projects.

A superior court has highlighted the necessity, under safety laws, to match high level engineering controls with "robust" training and active supervision, in finding an employer's $20,000 safety fine was manifestly inadequate, and ordering that it be resentenced.

• Employers baffled by large injury premium hikes; and
  
• Upselling "scam" breached electrical safety laws.

In this major must-read report, OHS Alert examines all the key workplace health and safety and workers' compensation developments from the second quarter of 2023, including a wide range of actual and proposed WHS amendments, a string of high-profile safety prosecutions, and concerns around surging burnout rates.

• Company fined $600k after three workers injured on island;
  
• Hierarchy-of-control amendments made in NT; and
  
• WHS inspectors target toilets and fall risks in SA.

A major employer that failed to ensure a quarry road and a windrow complied with industry guidance has been fined $130,000, after a loaded haul truck breached the windrow and plunged 15 metres, killing the driver.

A company manager has been fined $60,000 for neglect, in the last of a series of safety cases involving a teenager's death, a high-level corporate penalty and a former Olympic boxer who was recently jailed for more than a decade in New Zealand.

• "Injured" worker secretly provided escort services; and
  
• MoU targets unsafe high-risk work licensing practices.

• Employer fined $390k over fatality and site-preservation breaches; and
  
• Vehicle "blind spots" increased prior to workplace death.

• Burnout benefits axed and premiums up under Vic overhaul;
  
• Employer faces $200k penalty under blood monitoring charges; and
  
• WHS training deadline approaching in ACT.