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Proposed industrial manslaughter provisions released for feedback in South Australia will, according to unions, cover suicides attributable to workplace bullying and harassment, as with Victoria's version of the offence.

Two PCBUs have been convicted and fined a total of nearly half a million dollars after a labour-hire worker died of traumatic head injuries, with a court stressing that consultation failings represented a lost opportunity for identifying safety deficiencies.

Employers have been reminded of their WHS duty to protect their staff from violence, with more than 50 organisations, including major companies and safety regulators, signing an industry statement supporting the eradication of customer disrespect, abuse and violence from workplaces.

In this Q&A with OHS Alert, the managing director of Australia's "first workplace ombudsman service" examines the unique WHS risks faced by parliamentary workers and what can be done to mitigate them, providing food for thought for all organisations.

A safety regulator has successfully prosecuted a government-owned corporation for supplying a worker with a metal (instead of nonconductive) rod to clean powerlines, and is investigating a separate fatal electrical incident. Another regulator has issued a workplace powerlines warning after multiple shocks and near misses.

• 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.

• New WHS Code made under Commonwealth jurisdiction;
  
• Frontline workers protected by lengthy jail terms in NSW;
  
• Dust compensation changes commence in NSW; and
  
• WHS notification rules for lead (Pb) tweaked in SA.

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.

Individuals and businesses have been warned against rorting the injury compensation system, after a worker was handed a suspended prison sentence in one of a string of recent cases targeting fraudsters.