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• WHS regulator targets psychosocial risk assessments; and
  
• WHS Code aligned with WA regulations.

An analysis of a manufacturing disaster that killed five workers has shown how "human factors can contribute to a sequence of events that lead to a major incident", and what employers can do to curb this.

• New WHS regulations clarify psychosocial duties; and
  
• GHS 7 takes effect in all but one jurisdiction.

• 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.

Two companies, including one that failed to implement a mandatory rescue plan for excavation work, have been fined a total of $720,000, plus $35,000 in costs, in relation to the drowning of a worker in a trench.

Employers will face increasing pressure to comply with their WHS notification duties around s-xual assault and harassment, under legislative and policy changes recommended by a major PricewaterhouseCoopers review, which found some companies engage in "opportunistic and deliberate breaches" of the obligations.

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• Low-spend EU accepted as multiple WHS charges withdrawn.

An employer that allowed an unlicensed teenage worker to operate a forklift, and then failed to inform a safety regulator that seven of the worker's fingers had been amputated, has been handed a high-level safety penalty.

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.

• WHS notification rules for COVID amended by Comcare; and
  
• Multiple WHS changes flagged in WA FIFO harassment report.