Browsing: WHS legislation, regulations, standards and codes (ACT) | Page 6

• Safety blitz follows four forklift prosecutions;
  
• NSW issues hot work alert;
  
• WHS amendments and extended "wiring rules" notified in ACT; and
  
• State funeral announced for Tasmanian WHS Minister.

Safe Work Australia has launched the public consultation process for the review of the model WHS laws, posing 37 questions for discussion and pointing to the reasons why industrial manslaughter provisions weren't included in the Act.

• National safety guides for restraining loads released; and
  
• WHS-compliance proof mandatory under draft ACT jobs package.

• New safety bans with $1m fines receive assent in NSW;
  
• ACT adopts final model WHS Regulations and extended "wiring rules";
  
• Workers' comp changes progress in ACT and Tas; and
  
• Hazardous substances regulations commence in NZ today.

• Man hindered WorkSafe after second man seen on fire;
  
• New WHS Code coming to ACT, safety videos released; and
  
• Electrocutions add to work-related fatality toll.

• WorkCover extended to cyclone volunteers;
  
• Priority nurse-safety strategies implemented in NT;
  
• ACT and SA tackle violence and drug-driving; and
  
• Tasmanian WHS Minister unlikely to recover from illness.

• ABCC promises Code-compliance assessments;
  
• Dangerous goods laws amended in Vic and Tas;
  
• NSW abolishes safety regulator; and
  
• Anti-violence strategies introduced in ACT and Vic.

• Employers get anti-violence powers in ACT;
  
• New safety regulations restrict e-cigarettes; and
  
• NSW releases new workers' comp tool, fees and fatality alert.

• Rebate encourages substitution of unsafe vehicles in NSW; and
  
• Asbestos and discrimination laws progress in the ACT.

• Workplace defibrillator saves inductee contractor's life;
  
• SWA encourages memorial events, releases fatality report; and
  
• Second red-tape reduction Bill passes in ACT.