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Proactively integrating men and women workers in male-dominated workplaces can reduce discrimination and promote safer cultures, a landmark study seeking to "stamp out" occupational s-xual violence has found.

The High Court has rejected an employer's bid for special leave to challenge a ruling that it is not entitled to recover, from its insurer, any damages and compensation paid to an injured worker because of its safety record.

A major employer charged over a serious mobile plant incident has escaped prosecution, under Commonwealth WHS laws, because a regulator's "delegation instrument" did not give the inspector who initiated the prosecution the power to do so.

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".

• Protections against workplace harassment strengthened in Qld;
  
• Confined-space robot among WHS winners in WA; and
  
• Year-round safety urged at end of national WHS month.

The prosecution of two companies over the death of a worker in an exclusion zone has provided a timely reminder that the designers, manufacturers and suppliers of equipment have a legislative safety duty to the workers who use their products, according to a regulator.

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.

• OHS insurance bans take effect in Vic, new chair appointed; and
  
• Employer fined over EWP incident and verification failure.

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