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• Vaccine mandate satisfies safety consultation duties; and
  
• FIFO workers directed to get the COVID jab in WA.

The number of workers requiring mental health support more than tripled last year due to unprecedented work fatigue, increasing the pressure on supervisors and managers to prevent burnout in their teams, according to a clinical services specialist.

With public health restrictions set to ease in NSW and Victoria under COVID-19 vaccine rules, and recent regulatory action and a workers' comp ruling highlighting obligations around infections, employers need to determine whether to mandate or just encourage workforce vaccinations, a senior employment lawyer says.

• Vaccine mandates extended to dozens of occupations in Vic; and
  
• New WHS strategic plan targets five sectors in NT.

• Safety month commences, focusing on COVID, bullying and more; and
  
• Do you use a forklift in NSW? Expect a visit, maybe a fine.

Failings by Victoria's Department of Health put its hotel quarantine employees and security guards at risk of serious illness or death through contracting COVID-19 from returned travellers or contaminated surfaces, a regulator has alleged in charging the Department with 58 breaches of the State OHS Act.

A Fair Work Commission full bench majority has ruled that it is "entirely" against the public interest to grant a worker, who was sacked for refusing a flu shot, permission to appeal against the quashing of her unfair dismissal claim.

Employers and individuals have been reminded of the "crippling" psychological consequences of occupational violence, following reports of aggression against COVID-19 vaccination staff and other frontline workers. Meanwhile, WHS researchers have urged businesses to beware the risks posed by artificial intelligence technologies.

• WHS regulator issues more COVID notices, releases compliance checklist; and
  
• "Declining" crane and scaffolding compliance found by FSC.

• Mandatory COVID vaccine rule applied to another industry; and
  
• Plant warning issued in format first for WHS regulator.