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• New safety bans with $1m fines receive assent in NSW;
  
• ACT adopts final model WHS Regulations and extended "wiring rules";
  
• Workers' comp changes progress in ACT and Tas; and
  
• Hazardous substances regulations commence in NZ today.

• Lack of acclimatisation increases heat risks;
  
• Pre-Christmas period accounts for 25% of workplace deaths;
  
• New safety rules gazetted and made in WA and Qld; and
  
• "Ritualize" available in Tas from Monday.

The third quarter of 2017 was a busy period for work health and safety and workers' compensation professionals, with a raft of laws introduced or amended in all jurisdictions. In this report, OHS Alert outlines all the need-to-know changes, case law and controversies from the last three months.

Coronial investigations into six chainsaw-related fatalities have found they all could have been prevented by complying with the applicable industry code and Australian Standard, or using PPE.

OHS Alert publishes the most comprehensive quarterly updates on WHS and workers' comp developments in Australia. This edition revisits all the major legislative developments and cases in every jurisdiction from January, February and March 2017.

• WorkCover extended to cyclone volunteers;
  
• Priority nurse-safety strategies implemented in NT;
  
• ACT and SA tackle violence and drug-driving; and
  
• Tasmanian WHS Minister unlikely to recover from illness.

• OHS Code remade pending review;
  
• Is your cold workplace too cold? and
  
• Exercise self-efficacy creates virtuous health promotion circle.

• ABCC promises Code-compliance assessments;
  
• Dangerous goods laws amended in Vic and Tas;
  
• NSW abolishes safety regulator; and
  
• Anti-violence strategies introduced in ACT and Vic.

• Asbestos exposure blamed on admin error; and
  
• Safety alerts and guidance issued in three states.

• On-the-spot fines added to WHS Regs in Qld;
  
• GHS advice issued in WA and Tas; and
  
• Electrical safety amendments released for comment in WA.