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• WHS regulator issues more COVID notices, releases compliance checklist; and
  
• "Declining" crane and scaffolding compliance found by FSC.

• WHS regulator shuts sites for COVID breaches, calls in police; and
  
• Passed OHS laws increase deterrent effect of tough penalties.

• COVID lockdowns creating WHS gaps, PCBUs warned; and
  
• WA releases resources and start date for WHS transition.

Australia's WHS regulators are likely to amend their statements of regulatory intent to protect employers that don't mandate COVID-19 vaccinations, and are cracking down on the unlawful performance of non-essential work, with closure orders and high fines.

• WHS manslaughter Bill passes, provides more enforcement "avenues"; and
  
• COVID vaccine mandate lacked WHS consultation: union.

A PCBU has been to ordered to pay nearly $550,000 in penalties and costs, after two of its clients died in similar circumstances in less than three years. Meanwhile, a WHS regulator has revealed the two main electrical hazards recently identified in workplaces.

The maximum fine for industrial manslaughter in the ACT will jump from less than $2 million to $16.5 million, under a new Bill that transfers the offence from the Crimes Act to the WHS Act, and expands the coverage of the laws.

• Endorsed industrial death principles released by SWA;
  
• Dangerous goods and environmental duties amended in Vic; and
  
• Labour-hire scheme with WHS clauses starts in ACT tomorrow.

• New standard tackles "one of the deadliest" workplace hazards;
  
• WHS warnings follow carbon monoxide and vehicle incidents; and
  
• Union issues cease-work advice for Sydney smoke and particles.

The ACT Government has confirmed plans to transfer the offence of industrial manslaughter from the Crimes Act to its WHS laws, in a move that is likely to increase the maximum fine by millions of dollars.