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• New on-the-spot electrical safety fines commence in Qld; and
  
• Delayed safety regulations take effect in WA.

• Catastrophic injury and pension Bill receives assent;
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commencing in Qld; and
  
• Rail safety laws amended nationally and in Qld.

Safety and workers' comp laws are being amended in Queensland to allow dust victims to "re-open" lump sum claims, and crackdown on dodgy electrical work - a move driven by a workplace fatality and coronial inquest.

Mining operations will be blocked or shut down if their "dust abatement" plans are inadequate or they have poor dust-monitoring records, under recommendations from a damning inquiry into the "re-identification" of black lung disease.

Bills establishing Australia's "most comprehensive" safety laws for building products and a labour-hire licensing scheme have been introduced in Queensland. The State has also passed laws cracking down on infection-control breaches and improving transport safety.

Queensland has committed to introducing the new WHS offence of "negligence causing death" based on an interim recommendation from an ongoing audit. It has also passed laws removing the overlap between WHS and dam safety regulations.

• Triple fatality prompts warning on confined spaces;
  
• WHS competence scheme finalised in NSW;
  
• New black lung training regime coming to Qld; and
  
• MoU increases scrutiny of hazardous facilities in Vic.

• Fatalities drive new EWP training standards in SA; and
  
• Labour-hire plan targets workers' comp breaches in Qld.

Queensland is auditing its mirror WHS laws with a view to introducing the offence of "gross negligence causing death" and increasing maximum penalties.

• Fatigue factors to influence new FIFO rules in Qld;
  
• Workplace anti-suicide initiative gets $1m boost;
  
• WIRO calls for end to "secretive" workers' comp reviews; and
  
• Quad-bike-substitution rebates doubled in NSW.