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• WHS manslaughter Bill introduced ahead of national vote; and
  
• Missing asbestos register and burns prompt fine and warnings.

A global employer will down tools and conduct meetings on minimising occupational cancer risks, for World Day for Safety and Health at Work today. World safety day has also prompted renewed calls for Australia-wide industrial manslaughter provisions and an accelerated response to the review of the model WHS laws.

A PCBU has been fined for failing to report a head knock to a regulator, while a worker who should have refused his employer's request to carry out unsafe work has been fined over a co-worker's injuries, and a man has been penalised for his "disgraceful" asbestos breaches.

Twenty WHS Codes of Practice have been updated in Queensland, while an amended Code for managing workplace electrical risks has been approved, and asbestos regulations have been changed.

• Families call for nationwide industrial manslaughter laws;
  
• Agencies directed to identify and assess asbestos in WA; and
  
• Asbestos found in imported forklifts and gas cylinders.

• Employer fined in latest action on coffee burns;
  
• Labour-hire workers not properly trained; and
  
• PCBU and directors fined for disregarding asbestos regulations.

SafeWork NSW has committed to ensuring inspectors' decisions to issue prohibition notices aren't driven by political pressures, and to pushing WHS reforms at a national level, after the State Ombudsman found the regulator imposed unreasonable asbestos-related requirements on a local council.

• Admin-control warning issued after PCBU fined;
  
• Managers warned after vehicle falls 25m, kills operator; and
  
• SA launches asbestos blitz, suspends another licence.

WHS entry permit holders are permitted, from today, to photograph or film suspected safety contraventions at ACT workplaces, under a Bill that also adopts $500,000 "prohibited asbestos" fines and amends workers' compensation laws.

James Hardie has been ordered to pay for expensive, advanced immunotherapy treatment for a mesothelioma sufferer, in a landmark case setting a "significant precedent" for future damages awards for workplace victims and others.