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

• WHS enforcement policy for COVID excludes vaccine plan; and
  
• BHP fails to manage known projectile risk.

A regulator has issued a warning on the dangers of unlicensed electrical work, after a homemade device inspired by internet videos killed a man. Another regulator has launched an investigation into a fatality involving a forklift and a shipping container.

• RACV fined $475k for contractor fatigue management failures; and
  
• Draft WHS Regulations released in WA.

The commencement date of Western Australia's mirror WHS Act has been delayed by about three months, but the State Parliament has passed laws allowing workers to seek orders to stop bullying and s-xual harassment.

An employer's amputation-related gross negligence conviction has been downgraded to a general safety duty charge, in a judgment examining the "actual knowledge" of the defendant and a finding of "wilful blindness".

• Harassment prosecutions flagged on launch of FIFO program; and
  
• WHS scrutiny of suppliers stepped up in ACT.

One of four entities charged over the death of a 17-year-old worker, in a 12-metre fall, has been fined $320,000, after a court heard its fall-prevention strategy required personnel to disconnect their harnesses when moving from one high area to another.

• Workplace violence increasing, other injury rates "stagnating"; and
  
• Work from home increases FDV risks, employers have duty to act.

An employer that identified but failed to implement a critical safety control measure has been fined heavily, for the second time, in relation to offences on an infrastructure project.