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• Start date for WHS Act proclaimed in WA, Regulations released; and
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commences in NSW.

• Enforcement policy for new WHS Act revealed;
  
• Employer charged over fatal unloading task; and
  
• SWA calls for safety month ideas, releases silica guidance.

• Workplace COVID controls and exemptions outlined as WA re-opens; and
  
• COVID affects injury recovery and RTW outcomes: SWA.

• PCBUs advised on the management of COVID-exempt workers;
  
• Three workplace safety Codes commence in WA; and
  
• Workplace safety protections extended by s-x work Bill in Vic.

• RACV fined $475k for contractor fatigue management failures; and
  
• Draft WHS Regulations released in WA.

The commencement date of Western Australia's mirror WHS Act has been delayed by about three months, but the State Parliament has passed laws allowing workers to seek orders to stop bullying and s-xual harassment.

Businesses that breach workplace safety, workers' compensation, employment or environmental laws in any jurisdiction or overseas can now be blocked from supplying goods, services or works to Western Australian agencies, under Australia's "first debarment regime".

• Department fined for violence-related safety breaches;
  
• Three interpretive guidelines released for WA's WHS Act; and
  
• Scrutiny warning issued ahead of industrial manslaughter session.

In a busy two days in the west, the State Government has mandated COVID-19 vaccines for most workers, extended emergency safety measures for the pandemic, introduced a major IR Bill with protections for bullied and s-xually harassed workers, and established a compensation scheme for medically retired police.

• Employers need strategies for rapid antigen tests, says lawyer;
  
• COVID isolation rules eased in Victoria; and
  
• Regulations guide and Code released for WA's WHS transition.