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• Company charged with multiple breaches after two taxi deaths;
  
• Tougher driver-distraction laws commencing in Vic soon;
  
• Two in five white-card applications involve "fake" training; and
  
• Help SWA shape national WHS month.

• Safety regulator warns unsafe individuals after worker fined $30k; and
  
• Mobile-phone loophole closed by Qld safety amendments.

A major employer did not need to prove an "immediate and current issue" existed to justify implementing its new fatigue-busting roster, which was influenced by the transition to more prescriptive safety obligations, a commission has found.

An Australian Border Force worker's bid for compensation for depression and anxiety has been rejected, with a tribunal highlighting the traumatic circumstances of her personal life. It also found her inexperience impaired her ability to accept reasonable supervision.

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.

• New WHS regulations clarify psychosocial duties; and
  
• GHS 7 takes effect in all but one jurisdiction.

Seven kinds of cancer have been added to the list of cancers, in the Commonwealth Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, which are presumed to be caused by firefighting duties.

Chain-of-responsibility parties like schedulers that fail to ensure drivers are properly trained in managing fatigue, and don't speed, must face penalties that are heavy enough to deter similar offending by others, a superior court has found in increasing a business's fine twelvefold.

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.

The first Commonwealth Bill to implement recommendations from Marie Boland's review of the national model WHS laws has been introduced to the House of Representatives. The Bill also clarifies Safe Work Australia's information-gathering powers.