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• Employers warned after spate of workplace pedestrian deaths;
  
• Safety regulator launches powder coating and hospital campaigns; and
  
• Mesothelioma registry reports hundreds of new diagnoses.

• ACTU calls for WHS Regs to be extended to offshore facilities;
  
• Second major workers' comp Bill passes in NT; and
  
• Fatality reports and alerts issued in three jurisdictions.

Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.

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• Employers and OHS managers invited to self-assess workplace safety; and
  
• Regulator prosecutes unsafe employer and targets noisy workplaces.

Western Australia is banning electrical work on energised installations in response to the Morley Galleria double fatality and the death of a teenage worker in a roof space, while other electricity-related safety regulations commence in the State today.

• Harmonisation of explosives laws examined in SWA paper;
  
• Qld releases new safety guides and scaffold warning;
  
• WA releases draft isolation guide and safety alerts; and
  
• NSW tweaks rules on explosion-protected plant.

Two national employers are facing category 2 safety charges, in the second and third criminal proceedings filed under the Commonwealth jurisdiction's mirror WHS Act. Meanwhile, a Western Australian company has been fined for height-safety breaches.

• FIFO rosters and motelling targeted at ALP conference;
  
• FIFO drug and alcohol helpline launched in WA; and
  
• Workers' comp tool for employers launched in NSW.

• Employers warned of risk "normalisation" after bee attack;
  
• Eleven national employers profit from Comcare licence extensions; and
  
• SA redefines "construction project" in WHS Regulations.

In this article, OHS Alert examines all the most important workplace safety and workers' compensation news from the second quarter of 2015, including a record OHS fine, a world-first decision on PTSD, and legislative changes in every state and territory.