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• Workplace bullying-related injury costs creeping up;
  
• Draft guide restricts WHS undertakings with Comcare; and
  
• Australian Standards for cranes and loading ramps released for comment.

• New WHS fines, bans and threshold for silica confirmed in NSW;
  
• SWA releases 30 new work health monitoring guides; and
  
• New on-the-spot fines for rest-break breaches introduced.

Exclusion sanctions imposed on businesses that commit WHS breaches could be extended under a Federal Government plan to improve the safety and efficiency of the building industry.

• Another state introduces $1,000 phone distraction fines;
  
• Compliance Code for silica made in Vic, WA makes Chinese translations; and
  
• Wiring Rules amended.

• WHS amendments including diesel threshold coming to NSW; and
  
• Employers urged to impose their own low silica threshold.

Safe Work Australia members have agreed to start transitioning to a new chemical safety system within six months, while SWA has released a practical guide to managing ultraviolet radiation risks and a 60-page workers' comp report, and a WHS regulator has outlined safety duties relating to poor air quality.

• Presumptive PTSD compensation introduced in second state;
  
• National transport safety amendments made, and proposed; and
  
• Four sets of electricity and rail safety regulations commence in Vic.

• New rules made under risk-based industrial chemicals scheme; and
  
• WHS regulators issue 871 statutory notices in dust campaigns.

• WHS regulations amended in two jurisdictions; and
  
• Three priority industries dominate fatality toll.

Duty holders will switch from "tick the box" compliance to risk-based safety management systems and have easy access to imported technologies that improve safety, under draft Productivity Commission recommendations for the transport sector.