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• Zero tolerance promised for height-safety blitz in NSW;
  
• Dangerous goods restrictions increased in WA; and
  
• Injured ADF members' access to rehab accelerated.

• Emergency-response training inadequate despite $510k lesson; and
  
• Safety fees and levies increased in WA.

• Employers fined for SWMS and secure-storage breaches;
  
• Proposed FIFO safety code extending to all industries; and
  
• SAET to deal with WHS prosecutions soon.

• Electricity and gas safety laws amended in NSW and Vic;
  
• New WHS resources laws underpin three-year WA plan;
  
• Supply chain guides released in lead up to CoR laws; and
  
• Workers' comp medical panel to slash approval times in NSW.

A July 2011 crane death and a recent double fatality, which led to manslaughter charges, might not have occurred if an Australian Standard for concrete applied to civil construction works, a coronial inquest has found.

• Could workplace diesel exhaust be more hazardous than we think?
  
• Chain-of-responsibility sessions coming to four states; and
  
• Ministers appointed to oversee WHS harmonisation in WA.

The new Western Australian Government could amend its draft WHS laws to include union-led prosecutions and 20-year jail terms for recklessness, and attempt to block the expansion of the Comcare scheme, Labor Party policy documents show.

• Anti-bullying jurisdiction commences in Qld; and
  
• Dangerous goods amendments postponed in WA.

Fines for failing to safely handle or dispose of asbestos have increased 10-fold in Western Australia, in an effort to curb mesothelioma rates.

• On-the-spot fines added to WHS Regs in Qld;
  
• GHS advice issued in WA and Tas; and
  
• Electrical safety amendments released for comment in WA.