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• Extended workers' comp and mobile phone laws pass in NSW;
  
• Premium rates for 2018-19 revealed in Vic; and
  
• CoR-related SMS tools and RIS on automated vehicles released.

• Employers fined for acid and diary breaches;
  
• PCBUs reminded of impending WHS changes for miners, others; and
  
• Slow-down safety laws introduced in two more jurisdictions.

• WHS amendments pass and commence in NSW;
  
• Employers' upcoming surveillance rights blocked by ACT Bill; and
  
• Five OHS Compliance Codes published in Vic.

• PCBU fined $142k after toddler killed; and
  
• WHS regulations for mines and petroleum sites amended.

NSW is amending its mirror WHS Act to include extraterritorial powers and other recommendations from last year's statutory review, and to exempt police officers from prosecution for WHS breaches committed while dealing with armed offenders.

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.

Labour-hire licensing and workers' comp Bills have passed Victoria's Lower and Upper Houses of Parliament, while NSW has made a declaration on WHS certificates of competence, and Western Australia has published a new Code of Practice for emergency management.

• Another employer charged with category 2 breaches;
  
• NSW introduces two-stage approach to WHS EU applications; and
  
• "Personal use" fatigue exemption commences today.

NSW employers have been exempted from complying with certain health monitoring regulations because of a conflict between two WHS Acts, while a South Australian PCBU has been fined for failing to monitor the health of an employee who worked with a carcinogenic chemical.

• WHS exemptions extended by NSW and Comcare;
  
• Department and contractor face $9m in WHS fines; and
  
• Labour hire and SLOMO laws commencing in Qld and WA soon.