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• Workplace justice warning issued for WHS Code commencement;
  
• New permanent impairment guide made under Comcare scheme; and
  
• SWMS guidance note issued in ACT.

A company has been found guilty of safety breaches and fined $400,000, over a high-profile incident where a large bucket of concrete fell from a crane and killed a man working below the suspended load. Another employer has been fined $300,000 after a worker was struck by a forklift.

• WHS insurance bans and other provisions introduced to Senate; and
  
• On-the-spot WHS fines of $20k introduced in ACT.

This major OHS Alert report reviews all the need-to-know workplace health and safety and workers' comp developments from the past few months, including the passage of game-changing Respect@Work laws, numerous WHS amendments, COVID rulings, a state-first workplace manslaughter charge, and a record-smashing reckless conduct fine.

• Are you meeting your HSR-information duties? and
  
• "Injured" worker handed $51k fraud bill.

• Many WHS Codes amended for new GHS-7 regime;
  
• Tas adopts psychosocial WHS Code and regulations; and
  
• NSW enforcing new WHS rules for gig work.

A major supermarket's limited spill-control system - requiring workers to look out for spills and other hazards as they went about their normal jobs - "inevitably subordinated the detection" of hazards to the performance of other duties, an appeals court has found in a grape-slip case.

• Fatigue "misalignment" events ignored prior to crash-fire death;
  
• WHS visits tumble in SA in COVID era;
  
• Inconsistent understanding of silica risks identified in ACT; and
  
• SIRA to target overservicing in the workers' comp system.

Safe Work Australia has released the 24th edition of its Comparative Performance Monitoring Report, which shows safety regulators in some jurisdictions are increasingly resorting to prohibition notices to shut down unsafe work.

• Major WHS reforms and new s-xual assault duties pass in ACT; and
  
• Workplace fire risk increased by poor administrative controls.