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• Exclusion zone missing, nail enters heart, employer fined $250k; and
  
• WHS changes commence in Qld.

All NSW workplaces including offices and warehouses will be required to comply with the State's QR code system for the COVID-19 pandemic within a matter of days, under a plan to protect workers and quickly emerge from the current lockdown.

A labour-hire company that failed to regularly monitor and track the movements of an employee at a host's site has been fined over the man's death. Another company - a repeat safety offender - has been fined after a labour-hire worker was struck by a forklift under a system of administrative controls.

A company and its director have failed to overturn their WHS convictions and fines by claiming they had no control over, and therefore no safety duty to, a labour-hire worker who fell through a void.

An inquest into a workplace bee-sting death has found: it had been incumbent upon the business to provide and train personnel in the use of EpiPens; and the killed man was a worker within the meaning of WHS laws, despite his purported "observer" status.

• NSW restores work-from-home COVID-19 requirement; and
  
• OHS changes flagged for anti-harassment plan in Vic.

The maximum fine for industrial manslaughter in the ACT will jump from less than $2 million to $16.5 million, under a new Bill that transfers the offence from the Crimes Act to the WHS Act, and expands the coverage of the laws.

• PCBUs told to eliminate lung risks, on SWA campaign launch; and
  
• New safety charges follow $150k penalty, as fatality alerts issued.

The Federal Government today introduced a Bill empowering the Fair Work Commission to issue stop-workplace-s-xual-harassment orders, and better aligning anti-discrimination legislation with the model WHS laws.

A supervisor has been cleared of breaching his WHS duty, as a worker, after a teenager was burned in a chemical fire, in a case examining the scope of the duty of workers compared to those of PCBUs.