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• Five options flagged for WA safety laws;
  
• New WHS regulations postponed in Queensland;
  
• Tasmania's safest employers and workers announced; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

A PCBU's incident-response plan should include processes for contacting safety regulators and the media, and establishing legal professional privilege, according to an employment and safety lawyer.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

• SWA to transform WHS reporting under 10-year plan; and
  
• New workers' comp laws coming soon in WA.

Western Australia has tabled a draft mirror Work Health and Safety Bill, which, despite the State Government's long-term position on fines, includes the same maximum penalties as the model version of the laws.

• Fatigued worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected;
  
• Unsafe ladder involved in incident months after ACCC recall;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents; and
  
• Vic safety and Qld RTW award winners announced.

• Employers fined $470k over death and fatigue breaches;
  
• SA's presumptive cancer comp laws extended to volunteers; and
  
• Workers killed in nine industries in July, while five workers killed in 11 days.

In this update, OHS Alert examines the most important workplace safety and workers' comp news from the third quarter of 2014, including Safe Work Australia's controversial decision to dump draft Codes of Practice in favour of guidance packages, and other legislative developments.

Workplace fatality rate creeping up in NSW; Presumptive cancer comp laws to cover all WA firefighters; and Queensland launches bullying and harassment review.

Safety month kicks off this week; and Queensland commits to national rail safety regime.