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Q1 2023: Workplace safety legislation and caselaw update

This major user-friendly report looks back at all the major and most interesting workplace safety and compensation developments from the start of the calendar year, including the ministerial vote on industrial manslaughter, multiple manslaughter charges, the widespread introduction of new psychosocial risk regulations, and a major WHS case involving the deaths of overseas students.



WED
3:54PM

Sixth jurisdiction adopts WHS changes around psychosocial risks, opts against variations

Six of Australia's eight harmonised jurisdictions have now implemented regulations explicitly requiring PCBUs to tackle psychosocial risks through a risk management process, with the latest, the Northern Territory, choosing to mirror the national model clauses instead of opting for variations adopted by two jurisdictions.


THU
1:09PM

Record fatality fines imposed, manslaughter case dropped

An equipment hire company and its director have been handed record-shattering WHS fines totalling more than $1 million, after a worker was killed inside the "strike radius" of mobile plant. Meanwhile, a regulator has confirmed it is still prosecuting a business and an officer over another fatality, despite the withdrawal of an industrial manslaughter charge.


WED
2:14PM

Man charged with industrial manslaughter; fatality toll out

A business owner who allegedly recklessly disregarded safety complaints at a work site could be jailed for decades, after being charged with the industrial manslaughter of a worker in a fall. Meanwhile, a regulator has released a workplace fatality toll including deaths from disease and suicide.


MON
12:12PM

Company charged over taxi deaths; Tougher laws announced; "Fake" safety training offered; and more

  • 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.

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