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

• Admin-control warning issued after PCBU fined;
  
• Managers warned after vehicle falls 25m, kills operator; and
  
• SA launches asbestos blitz, suspends another licence.

• Employer fined $850k over missing SWMS and fatality;
  
• Individual convicted for hindering WHS investigation; and
  
• More WHS offences attract on-the-spot fines in NT.

• Workplace COVID-19 controls encouraged by awards shift;
  
• Injury prevention program covers 40,000 workers, and growing; and
  
• Major workers' comp changes commence in NT next week.

• High-risk occupations overlooked in COVID-19 pandemic;
  
• Warnings issued after crane and hose deaths; and
  
• Another WHS regulator issues white card safety warning.

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.

• HSE adviser allegedly unlawfully snubbed by official;
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commences in NSW;
  
• Two more jurisdictions halve workplace silica threshold; and
  
• Draft national safety guidelines for asbestos-cement pipes released.

• Workers' comp overhaul with PTSD provisions passes in NT; and
  
• Workplace bullying targeted in major WA IR Bill.

• COVID-19 work recovery plans due now;
  
• Workplace COVID-19 controls mandated in Tas;
  
• COVID-19 lift policy and 15-minute rule announced in NT;
  
• Coronavirus construction checklist launched in Vic; and
  
• SA's workplace silica threshold halving in two weeks.

• SWA launches COVID-19 hub and home setup guide;
  
• More work-related COVID-19 guides and fatality alerts issued; and
  
• HSEQ manager appointed boss of NT WorkSafe.