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• Contractor not informed of chemical hazard;
  
• Procurement policy focuses on WHS performance; and
  
• Major review of WHS compliance regime launched in ACT.

Stronger, WHS-style chain-of-responsibility (CoR) laws for the transport and logistics sectors will commence in four months, imposing a positive duty of care on all parties that can influence road safety, and requiring officers to exercise due diligence to ensure their companies comply with their duties.

A company has been ordered to pay an injured worker $120,000 in damages, after a court found its order and delivery systems led to the man manually manoeuvring heavy objects.

• Anti-phone work safety policy applies to stationary vehicles; and
  
• WHS charges withdrawn with safety officer pledge.

Three employers have been ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in safety fines and reparations, after two workers were killed - including one who worked nearly 200 hours in the two weeks before his death - and a geotechnical report was ignored.

• High work safety fines approved with contractor proviso;
  
• New plan tackles manufacturing sector's high incident rate; and
  
• Workplace skin cancer checks offered in SA.

In a decision driving home the importance of prescribing workplace behavioural norms, a commission has upheld the dismissal of two workers who isolated and ostracised a contractor's employees, including one who later attempted suicide.

• Auditing tool for ISO 45001 released;
  
• Two more OHS Compliance Codes published in Vic; and
  
• PCBUs charged over motorcyclist's death, face $3m in fines.

Draft changes to training products for WHS certificates and diplomas include "many" non-fit-for-purpose competencies and a new unit on psychological health and safety that does "little to address this important topic", the Safety Institute of Australia has warned.

A major employer has become the second entity to be convicted of WHS offences relating to a load toppling from a forklift driven by an unlicensed labour-hire worker.