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Workplaces constantly change and evolve and employers have been reminded, for World Day for Safety and Health at Work today, of the importance of adapting their WHS processes. The event is also being used to highlight the way COVID-19 has exposed weak safety standards.

• Work-related COVID restrictions eased in NSW and Vic; and
  
• Employers' fatigue breaches "put road users at risk".

Employers need to utilise a "structured engineering approach" to identify hazards when integrating complex systems, according to a major report on a BHP train derailment, which also found the company's roster for drivers could increase their fatigue levels.

An employer took quick and "responsive" steps after a worker complained of not coping with her workload, but its efforts to mitigate her "unattainable" and injury-causing load came too late, a commission has found.

Two company directors who were charged with due diligence breaches, after a contract driver was killed, have entered enforceable undertakings with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.

A worker's fatal complications from car crash injuries, sustained on a journey from his workplace to his home, did not arise out of his employment, a court has found in upholding an appeal.

• Beware new-year fatigue with COVID-forced work changes;
  
• Mask rules eased in another jurisdiction, WHS advice issued; and
  
• RPE guidance published after 162 WHS notices issued.

• PCBUs advised on the management of COVID-exempt workers;
  
• Three workplace safety Codes commence in WA; and
  
• Workplace safety protections extended by s-x work Bill in Vic.

• National Cabinet endorses system "silent on" on fatigue and safety; and
  
• Inaugural WHS Prosecutor resigns.

A short program for new workers on how to enhance sleep and other forms of recovery prevented burnout and other stress-related symptoms, Swedish researchers have found.