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• WHS Act, manslaughter laws and better deterrents commence in WA; and
  
• WHS-style electrical safety laws pass NT Parliament.

Employers have been warned, by both Safe Work Australia and unions, that they still have a WHS duty to protect workers from COVID-19 despite easing public health directions and orders.

A government department previously convicted over two fatalities has been handed a record-shattering workplace safety fine in Western Australia, this time after a worker was attacked and seriously injured by a problematic riot-control dog.

A company and its director have been fined a total of $126,000, after their electrical safety contraventions were referred to a WHS prosecutor. Another company was recently fined for similar breaches, after an apprentice was nearly killed.

• Start date for WHS Act proclaimed in WA, Regulations released; and
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commences in NSW.

• Enforcement policy for new WHS Act revealed;
  
• Employer charged over fatal unloading task; and
  
• SWA calls for safety month ideas, releases silica guidance.

• New harassment laws drive safety changes by ABCC;
  
• New WHS Code covers forest fires and fatigue in Tas; and
  
• WHS awards open in WA, with new category.

• Workplace COVID controls and exemptions outlined as WA re-opens; and
  
• COVID affects injury recovery and RTW outcomes: SWA.

Two companies that failed to arrange formal inspections of a large workplace tank have been fined for work health and safety breaches, after the structure failed and exposed workers to the risk of death.

• Appoint an "infectious diseases manager", employers told; and
  
• Regulator, and UMM, help young workers speak up on safety.