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• High work safety fines approved with contractor proviso;
  
• New plan tackles manufacturing sector's high incident rate; and
  
• Workplace skin cancer checks offered in SA.

• PCBU fined $500k, but parent company acquitted;
  
• Confined-space fine increased by 83%;
  
• Record-low workers' comp premium rate announced in SA; and
  
• Unsafe labour-hire firms warned at launch of Qld licensing scheme.

• Mandatory WHS Code commences in Qld;
  
• Three mirror WHS Codes adopted by ACT; and
  
• Controversial workers' comp Bill defeated in Vic.

Queensland has re-introduced reforms increasing maximum mine safety fines 15-fold to nearly $3.8 million, and re-raised the possibility of introducing industrial manslaughter laws to the resources sector.

• Major industrial chemical reforms postponed;
  
• Combustible cladding banned in Vic;
  
• New WHS Codes of Practice promised in Qld;
  
• PCBU charged over British national's road death;
  
• Small bumps cause quad bike rollovers, safety researchers find; and
  
• Regulator relaunches $3.2m safety campaign in NSW.

• Draft Code tackles bullying and harassment in notorious industry;
  
• Minister accused of setting back anti-harassment movement; and
  
• New IR rules commence and clarify sick leave provision in Qld.

Executive officers' due diligence obligations, under upcoming chain-of-responsibility laws, have been extended by a Bill introduced in the Heavy Vehicle National Law's host jurisdiction.

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.

• New electrical safety laws introduced in Vic; and
  
• Qld makes new WHS Code for water activities.

• 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.