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A tribunal has rejected an employer's "invitation" to ignore a doctor's statement that a worker hasn't recovered from a work injury, and the employer's claim that it isn't liable for the man's psychological issues that followed his workplace vehicle accident.

• Parliamentarians told to lead by example on WHS; and
  
• Traffic safety rules examined in forklift prosecution.

This major user-friendly report looks back at all the major and most interesting workplace safety and compensation developments from the start of the calendar year, including the ministerial vote on industrial manslaughter, multiple manslaughter charges, the widespread introduction of new psychosocial risk regulations, and a major WHS case involving the deaths of overseas students.

For International Workers' Memorial Day today, unions have called for the Apple Isle to commit to introducing the offence of industrial manslaughter, noting all other Australian jurisdictions have made such a commitment, and highlighting the deterrent effect of tough safety laws.

A PCBU has been been convicted and fined $230,000 for category 2 and 3 WHS breaches, in the second of two cases in one jurisdiction in just over a year involving silicosis diagnoses and heavy penalties across different industries.

• Second company fined after sinkhole devours vehicles; and
  
• Presumptive cancer list to cover female workers in Tas.

An employer has been granted permission to contest a bullying claim, in a case that hinged on the exact date a manager "received" an email containing the claim forms.

A 24-hour service for reporting workplace s-xual harassment is just one of a series of strategies adopted in one jurisdiction to tackle the high rate of harassment in the Australian legal profession.

This major OHS Alert report reviews all the need-to-know workplace health and safety and workers' comp developments from the past few months, including the passage of game-changing Respect@Work laws, numerous WHS amendments, COVID rulings, a state-first workplace manslaughter charge, and a record-smashing reckless conduct fine.

• Many WHS Codes amended for new GHS-7 regime;
  
• Tas adopts psychosocial WHS Code and regulations; and
  
• NSW enforcing new WHS rules for gig work.