Browsing: WHS Harmonisation (SA)


MON
3:51PM

WHS psychosocial set completed with SA development

All of Australia's eight harmonised WHS jurisdictions have now formally applied or committed to adopting provisions explicitly requiring PCBUs to manage psychosocial risks through a risk management process.


THU
2:16PM

FRI
12:41PM

WHS amendments and proactive enforcement likely to follow latest review of regulator

A range of WHS amendments, including some improving harmonisation, are set to follow the root-and-branch review of SafeWork SA, but they won't include the softening of an entry rule pertaining to health and safety representatives, with the State Government emphatically rejecting a recommendation around this area.


TUE
1:01PM

Twenty changes made to model WHS Act, other documents

The national model Work Health and Safety Act, Regulations and related materials have been amended to reflect a wide range of recommendations from Marie Boland's independent review of the laws. Some states have already adopted some of the changes, while other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit soon.


FRI
10:44AM

FRI
1:31PM

SA Greens seeking $13m max fine in revised manslaughter Bill

The South Australian Greens have reintroduced a Bill to create a new offence of industrial manslaughter, but with a maximum fine of $13 million, well above the $1 million it proposed last year.


FRI
3:58PM

MON
2:13PM

THU
2:35PM

MON
3:57PM

Category 1 WHS charges upheld

Two of the first entities charged with reckless conduct under harmonised WHS laws have failed to overturn the charges, with a full court rejecting their claim that their duty to "other persons" was limited to the exact time of their alleged recklessness.


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