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• Unsafe employers and supervisor fined;
  
• National risk standard and Vic safety regulations commence; and
  
• New laws underpin ACT's workers' comp self-insurance licence.

One of three entities charged after the death of a teenager in the Work for the Dole (WFD) program has been handed less than 20 per cent of the maximum penalty for a category 3 WHS breach.

• Dispute resolution and rehab changes made by NSW and Cwlth;
  
• Major chemical safety Bill simplifies agvet approvals; and
  
• Safety policy and labour-hire guide released by NHVR and ONRSR.

• Health and safety amendments announced for Qld mines;
  
• SA dumps labour-hire scheme with safety provisions; and
  
• Emergency worker protections pass in Vic and Tas, as NT issues warning.

A Senate inquiry has called on the Australian Government to ensure legislated workplace health and safety rights for workers who are not classified as employees or perform non-standard work, with the proliferation of the gig economy.

• OHS-style pollution and waste Bill passes Parliament;
  
• Labour-hire Regs and anti-harassment plan released in Vic; and
  
• Five parties charged over occupational violence.

An employer that incorrectly assumed a WHS manager had implemented its safety systems at a new site has become the second entity to be convicted over a serious forklift incident.

A labour-hire company that failed to conduct risk assessments at a host workplace has entered an OHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution, in a move that could affect the viability of the business in Victoria under the State's new licensing scheme.

A PCBU has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches in a case that amounts to a guide to how not to enter and work in a confined space.

• Major WHS amendments strengthen unions' role in ACT;
  
• Record $55m workplace mental health plan launched in NSW;
  
• Enforcement date for labour-hire scheme postponed in SA; and
  
• WA makes further amendments to electrical safety rules.