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More than one in three of the hundreds of COVID-19-related workers' compensation claims lodged in Australia involve mental health issues, new data from Safe Work Australia shows. Meanwhile, Western Australia has introduced a Bill extending its tough penalties for pandemic-related violence against frontline workers.

• Workplace exposure thresholds halved in WA;
  
• KFC operator failed to provide safety supervision; and
  
• Did you miss OHS Alert's latest quarterly update?

Western Australia has taken a critical step closer to implementing industrial manslaughter laws and joining the harmonised WHS regime, with its Work Health and Safety Bill 2019 passing the Upper House with amendments last night.

• New dangerous goods offences and mine rules made in NSW;
  
• Dangerous goods changes and penalties commence in WA; and
  
• WA's presumptive COVID-19 protections take effect.

• Patrons placed "blind trust" in deadly Dreamworld ride: magistrate;
  
• Comcare makes WHS exemption for GHS 7, opens awards; and
  
• WA amendments expedite lower workplace exposure limits.

• New exposure thresholds, height Code commence in two states;
  
• Worker fined for reversing forklift without looking; and
  
• Duty holders warned after rolling-vehicle death.

• COVID-19 and silica updates from NSW, Vic, WA and SWA;
  
• Manslaughter laws come with broader definition of workplace death; and
  
• Inventory overhauled for new risk-based chemical safety system.

• Workers' comp overhaul with PTSD provisions passes in NT; and
  
• Workplace bullying targeted in major WA IR Bill.

New laws accelerating workers' access to COVID-19-related compensation and easing constraints on damages claims have been flagged for Western Australia. The State has also revised the start date for its mobile phone distraction crackdown, and called for comments on an anti-violence Code for workplaces.

• RTW pressures contribute to work injury;
  
• Lag and lead indicators underpin national RTW plan; and
  
• Safety guidelines for electrical-asset neighbours made in WA.