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Employers have been reminded of the stringent safety laws that apply to electrical equipment, after a company was fined for allowing such equipment to be tested by unlicensed staff.

An employer that overturned its gross negligence conviction, relating to a labour-hire worker's full-arm amputation in an unguarded pinch point of a machine, has been fined $230,000 under amended charges.

A company has been fined after a workplace health and safety inspector observed two of its apprentices performing electrical work on their own. Meanwhile, Western Australia's average workers' comp premium rate has been increased for the second year in a row.

A major government employer has been fined for safety breaches that led to contractors inadvertently electrifying taps and other metallic objects in four houses.

• WHS Act, manslaughter laws and better deterrents commence in WA; and
  
• WHS-style electrical safety laws pass NT Parliament.

Employers have been warned, by both Safe Work Australia and unions, that they still have a WHS duty to protect workers from COVID-19 despite easing public health directions and orders.

A government department previously convicted over two fatalities has been handed a record-shattering workplace safety fine in Western Australia, this time after a worker was attacked and seriously injured by a problematic riot-control dog.

A company and its director have been fined a total of $126,000, after their electrical safety contraventions were referred to a WHS prosecutor. Another company was recently fined for similar breaches, after an apprentice was nearly killed.

• Start date for WHS Act proclaimed in WA, Regulations released; and
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commences in NSW.

• Enforcement policy for new WHS Act revealed;
  
• Employer charged over fatal unloading task; and
  
• SWA calls for safety month ideas, releases silica guidance.