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"Every single" incident of workplace harm is preventable and "a great deal of liability" circles company leaders who fail to proactively address safety issues, the head of a WHS regulator has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.

Workplace safety is not a "grey area" and needs to be practised until it becomes the culture, workplace injury survivor and safety advocate Candace Carnahan has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, in Sydney.

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

The operator of the inflatable jumping castle that six children were using when they sustained fatal injuries at the Hillcrest Primary School in Tasmania, in December 2021, has been charged with a mid-level WHS offence.

• 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.

A local council that faced a maximum WHS penalty of more than $7 million, relating to an allegedly unsafe plant modification aimed at protecting workers from crocodiles, has been permitted to enter a $76,500 undertaking in lieu of prosecution.

A burnout study of nearly 7,000 workers across 2,000 companies has highlighted the importance of supplying workers with reliable technology, and technical assistance, to help them maintain their mental health and productivity.

Two employers have been sentenced for safety breaches resulting in life-changing amputations, including one company that failed to comply with an authorisation requiring only certain personnel to work near overhead powerlines.

A Victorian company that pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering an apprentice, while he was being supervised by the company director, has been fined $2.1 million - a penalty that is more than double the State's previous record safety fine for a single offence.

Two employers have been fined a total of nearly $300,000 over machine entrapment incidents, including a major company that failed to assess the competency of its workers in safety procedures.