Browsing: WHS legislation, regulations, standards and codes (ACT)


FRI
3:50PM

WHS Bill enables conduct aggregation, boosts penalties

Provisions enabling the "aggregation of conduct" are being added to the ACT's WHS laws to deal with offences like reckless conduct, hindering inspectors and supplying incorrectly labelled chemicals, under a Bill that also significantly increases WHS penalties.



FRI
3:54PM

FRI
3:41PM

More WHS prosecutions promised; WHS Codes made; more

  • WHS prosecutions promised, other initiatives having little impact;
  • Fatigue and remote-work alerts issued after fatalities, violence; and
  • WHS consultation and s-x work Codes amended and made in ACT.

FRI
2:17PM

WED
1:10PM

Seventh WHS jurisdiction adopts psychosocial changes

All but one of Australia's eight harmonised WHS jurisdictions have now introduced the new model clauses on psychosocial risks, with the ACT being the latest to do so, while joining a subgroup that has chosen to prescribe the use of the hierarchy of controls for these risks.


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12:53PM

THU
2:20PM

Workplace s-xual assault notification duties commencing

From next week, employers in Canberra will have a duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault to a WHS regulator, under new laws that also ban insurance against WHS penalties.


FRI
3:55PM


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