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• Major WHS reforms and new s-xual assault duties pass in ACT; and
  
• Workplace fire risk increased by poor administrative controls.

• Safety ban promised through WHS cease-work provisions; and
  
• New anti-harassment duties across seven "activities" pass in NT.

• Chemicals alert issued with GHS transition period expiring;
  
• New WHS dust regulations further amended in ACT;
  
• Controversial ACT COVID notice followed by WHS amendment; and
  
• RTW guide highlights "the most important relationship".

In this major report, OHS Alert examines all the must-know WHS and workers' comp developments from the third quarter of 2022, including the introduction of laws and codes tackling psychosocial hazards, wholesale changes to workplace COVID-19 rules, and the launch of safety prosecutions linked to dozens of COVID deaths.

• Safety regulator controversially closes bullying probe in Vic; and
  
• AiG slams WHS provisions commencing in ACT on Monday.

• Exercise due diligence through Safe Work Month activities; and
  
• Worker fined over fatal reversing-plant incident.

• NSW mandates workplace psychosocial risk controls; and
  
• New WHS Code prohibits work method in ACT.

• Employers' WHS duties extend to laptop cords; and
  
• "Scathing" mine reports trigger WHS audits in SA.

• WHS Code of Practice approved in ACT, in rare move; and
  
• WHS Regulation remade with new diesel rules in NSW.

• Unprecedented COVID notice highlights broad WHS duties; and
  
• Main WHS risks and duties clarified after rise in electric shocks.