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• Workplace COVID controls still mandatory, employers reminded;
  
• "Respect" standards promised after SA harassment review; and
  
• Two states launch work safety awards, with COVID-control prize in one.

• COVID prohibition notices extended, OHS-style laws commencing; and
  
• Workplace manslaughter warning issued on release of death toll.

A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker who continued to work after failing a COVID-19 temperature check because she believed the testing device was faulty.

• Business fined for COVID-19 and court failures; and
  
• Nearly 100 WHS notices issued, while solar blitz launched.

• Workplace COVID check-ins amended in Vic and Qld;
  
• NSW restricts use of hazardous extinguisher foams; and
  
• WHS Act extended to island.

A worker who was caught smoking with two colleagues before the start of a shift was lawfully dismissed under her employer's "unapologetic hard-line" approach to controlling the spread of COVID-19, a commission has ruled.

With Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout program commencing today, employers have been re-warned that vaccinations do not replace other workplace control measures for the pandemic. Meanwhile, two employers have been charged over the death of a jockey.

Employers' health interventions for workers working remotely for the pandemic should not neglect those who already worked from home regularly, and appear to be struggling the most from changes to their routine, researchers say.

The vast majority of employers will not have a WHS right or obligation to require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, while most workers are unlikely to be able to refuse to attend work because a colleague has not been inoculated, the Federal Industrial Relations Minister has announced on the release of new guidance on the issue.

• Pre-lockdown work restrictions restored, with amendments;
  
• Automatic mental injury payments pass Vic Parliament; and
  
• OHS bans extended to prevent regulatory gap.