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Western Australia will amend existing safety Codes of Practice, rather than introduce a new Code, to improve FIFO workers' mental health, according to the State Government's response to the inquiry into the issue. The Government declined to support a recommendation to acknowledge that FIFO workers are at risk of suicide.

This update outlines all the most important workplace safety and workers' compensation developments from July, August and September, including one of the highest safety fines in Australian history, and legislative changes in every jurisdiction.

• Employers given time to comply with new drug and alcohol requirements;
  
• Feedback sought on draft WHS Code for mining; and
  
• Significant incident reports and safety bulletins released.

• Safety self-assessment tools should be used by experts, lawyers say;
  
• Unregistered high-risk work trainer enters enforceable undertaking; and
  
• SWA reports 15 fatalities in a month.

• Open window results in $120k safety fine;
  
• Employers fined over fatalities, burns and crush injuries; and
  
• Employer fined for two height-safety breaches after one fall.

• Mobile-plant death prompts safety warning;
  
• World-first mine safety Code now available online; and
  
• Queensland honours killed miners.

• SWA launches electronic safety kit;
  
• Employers urged to learn from WA injury and fatality reviews; and
  
• WorkSafe Victoria reports record RTW rate and issues safety alert.

• Employer and dentist fined after WorkSafe investigations; and
  
• WA introduces world's first safety Code for autonomous mining.

• "Steve Irwin" and union fined $273k over WHS entry breach;
  
• Regulator warns of unregistered high-risk work trainer; and
  
• Qld regulator investigating two workplace fatalities.

• Employer fined $150k over remote-worker death;
  
• Abetz urges all work stakeholders to consult deemed diseases list;
  
• SA flu victims told to stay away from work in light of high case rate;
  
• WA releases three safety guides and issues dangerous goods warning; and
  
• Victoria updates "Injury Hotspots" tool.