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• West Gate Bridge anniversary sends work safety message;
  
• PCBU failed to enforce exclusion zones; and
  
• Safety blitz moves to next Canberra suburb, issues 31 notices.

A company and its director have been handed maximum OHS penalties, totalling more than $466,000, after a truck with poorly maintained brakes crashed and killed its young driver, while a safety regulator has issued a string of notices in the latest phase of its Canberra blitz.

• Employers targeted in new COVID-19 testing regime in Vic; and
  
• National Safe Work Month kicks off tomorrow.

• John Holland charged with category-2 WHS breach;
  
• Multiple electrical cases being referred to WHS Prosecutor; and
  
• One WHS prohibition notice closes 13 sites.

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.

• Worker fatigue convictions follow hotline report; and
  
• Safety shutdowns promised after 34 notices issued in ACT.

In this article, OHS Alert reviews all the need-to-know workplace safety and compensation developments from the second quarter of 2020, including Australia's first industrial manslaughter conviction, recklessness cases, work-related pandemic restrictions and wholesale legislative changes.

• NSW launches COVID-19 work guidance, addresses misconceptions;
  
• PCBUs warned after worker killed by damaged gate;
  
• Revamped WHS regulator to focus on climate change and violence; and
  
• ACTU applauds Vic's broader workplace death definition.

• Coroner issues unique workplace fatality warning; and
  
• Employers urged to better new silica threshold in ACT.

• COVID-19 transition plans must cover WHS and critical functions;
  
• ACT seeks to boost workers' mental health in pandemic; and
  
• NSW introduces Bill for new work injury dispute system.