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• Duty holders fined $435k over missing controls, teen's injuries; and
  
• Low-spend EU accepted as multiple WHS charges withdrawn.

Employers have been reminded of two WHS prosecutions over a heat-stroke death, and of the need to conduct frequent weather-related risk assessments, with temperatures soaring in parts of Australia this week.

• Safety ban promised through WHS cease-work provisions; and
  
• New anti-harassment duties across seven "activities" pass in NT.

• Chemicals alert issued with GHS transition period expiring;
  
• New WHS dust regulations further amended in ACT;
  
• Controversial ACT COVID notice followed by WHS amendment; and
  
• RTW guide highlights "the most important relationship".

• Director barred for safety breaches, consignor targeted;
  
• Compliance Codes for silica made and revoked in Vic;
  
• Workers' comp changes introduced in Tas;
  
• Healthy workplaces service launched in SA; and
  
• Cheong gets permanent WHS director role in NT.

One of two company directors charged with failing to exercise due diligence, in relation to a fatal helicopter crash possibly linked to the pilot's alcohol consumption, has entered a WHS undertaking in lieu of prosecution.

In this major report, OHS Alert examines all the must-know WHS and workers' comp developments from the third quarter of 2022, including the introduction of laws and codes tackling psychosocial hazards, wholesale changes to workplace COVID-19 rules, and the launch of safety prosecutions linked to dozens of COVID deaths.

• Finalised positive anti-harassment duty introduced in NT; and
  
• Dangerous goods duties aligned by Territory Bill.

The termination of a long-serving firefighter who refused to disclose his COVID-19 vaccination status while on annual leave has been ruled unfair, with a commission finding his employer embarked on a "well-worn disciplinary path" without carefully considering his correspondence on the issue.

• Exercise due diligence through Safe Work Month activities; and
  
• Worker fined over fatal reversing-plant incident.