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• Conduct Omicron risk assessments or face walk-offs, employers told;
  
• Occupational lung diseases targeted in ACT; and
  
• WHS amendments for quads take effect in Tas.

• Strict COVID-19 notification rules scrapped in Vic; and
  
• Presumptive COVID protections flagged for SA.

• Close contact exemptions extended to multiple industries;
  
• PTSD presumption introduced in WA; and
  
• Sun safety advice issued by SWA.

Forcing workers to pay for their own rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 will have a major impact on workplace health and safety standards, unions have warned ahead of today's National Cabinet meeting. Meanwhile, vaccination and isolation rules for workers have been amended in some regions, and an employer has been fined for allowing unvaccinated staff to carry out work.

• COVID, cancers and PTSD added to deemed diseases list; and
  
• New electrical safety laws mirror NT's WHS Act.

The COVID-19 pandemic has ramped up the digitisation of work processes and the expansion of safety management technology beyond routine health and safety issues, according to a safety software expert who outlines how employers can get the most out of their platforms.

• Fatality fails to trigger proactive WHS efforts or COVID controls; and
  
• WHS enforcement activities highlighted in SA.

A five-member Fair Work Commission bench has detailed activities that do and do not constitute consultation with the meaning of the model WHS laws, in finding BHP failed to properly consult its workers before imposing a COVID-19 vaccination mandate at one of its NSW sites.

• Defibrillators installed in 100 work vehicles, Tas updates COVID WHS tips;
  
• Site controller charged over customer's car wash death; and
  
• Entire supply chain targeted in vehicle safety campaign.

• COVID vaccines mandated for multiple Qld sectors, visiting workers;
  
• Lightning-related WHS duties outlined after fatality; and
  
• WHS activities affected by COVID: major SWA report.