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• Step up safety with increasing demands, say regulators;
  
• Employers urged to utilise WHS tool for young workers; and
  
• Waivers don't reduce WHS duties to children.

The latest defendant to be sentenced over the death of a worker at a Canberra site breached its WHS duty to say "no" to the principal contractor's unsafe demands, a court has found in fining it twice as much as the principal.

• New near-miss duties and injury provisions pass in Vic; and
  
• Miller to identify barriers to managing ACT's psychosocial hazards.

A WHS regulator has promised to respond to all workplace health and safety incidents with "firm enforcement and compliance actions", after a PCBU pleaded guilty to a fatality-related contravention. Another regulator has issued a carbon monoxide warning, following a recent death and in light of heavy rains.

• PCBUs advised on the management of COVID-exempt workers;
  
• Three workplace safety Codes commence in WA; and
  
• Workplace safety protections extended by s-x work Bill in Vic.

• Conduct Omicron risk assessments or face walk-offs, employers told;
  
• Occupational lung diseases targeted in ACT; and
  
• WHS amendments for quads take effect in Tas.

• Fatality fails to trigger proactive WHS efforts or COVID controls; and
  
• WHS enforcement activities highlighted in SA.

A judge has discussed the interaction of the WHS duties of companies and the specialist skills of their subcontractors, in sentencing one of nine entities charged with serious safety offences, including manslaughter and reckless conduct, after a pedestrian worker was killed by a crane.

• Integrating WHS management within BIM; and
  
• WHS strategy to target PCBUs failing young workers.

A WHS regulator has committed to utilising all its compliance tools, including statutory notices and prosecutions, under a new three-year plan to tackle psychological risks and hazards.