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• Workplace justice warning issued for WHS Code commencement;
  
• New permanent impairment guide made under Comcare scheme; and
  
• SWMS guidance note issued in ACT.

A company has been found guilty of safety breaches and fined $400,000, over a high-profile incident where a large bucket of concrete fell from a crane and killed a man working below the suspended load. Another employer has been fined $300,000 after a worker was struck by a forklift.

This major OHS Alert report reviews all the need-to-know workplace health and safety and workers' comp developments from the past few months, including the passage of game-changing Respect@Work laws, numerous WHS amendments, COVID rulings, a state-first workplace manslaughter charge, and a record-smashing reckless conduct fine.

• Are you meeting your HSR-information duties? and
  
• "Injured" worker handed $51k fraud bill.

• Fatigue "misalignment" events ignored prior to crash-fire death;
  
• WHS visits tumble in SA in COVID era;
  
• Inconsistent understanding of silica risks identified in ACT; and
  
• SIRA to target overservicing in the workers' comp system.

Safe Work Australia has released the 24th edition of its Comparative Performance Monitoring Report, which shows safety regulators in some jurisdictions are increasingly resorting to prohibition notices to shut down unsafe work.

• Major WHS reforms and new s-xual assault duties pass in ACT; and
  
• Workplace fire risk increased by poor administrative controls.

• Safety regulator controversially closes bullying probe in Vic; and
  
• AiG slams WHS provisions commencing in ACT on Monday.

• NSW mandates workplace psychosocial risk controls; and
  
• New WHS Code prohibits work method in ACT.

• Employers' WHS duties extend to laptop cords; and
  
• "Scathing" mine reports trigger WHS audits in SA.