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The new, authorised edition of the Wiring Rules has been published with updates to key safety areas, while workers' comp levies for seafarers have been increased by 66 per cent.

• Specialised workers' comp scheme extended in NSW;
  
• PC inquiring into veterans' workers' comp arrangements; and
  
• SWA voting on psychological health guidance soon.

A worker injured playing netball at a weekend competition has been denied workers' compensation, after a tribunal rejected his claim that he was injured during a temporary absence and his employer encouraged him to play.

The five-page list of specified diseases under the Commonwealth SRC Act has been replaced with a 21-page legislative instrument, which includes conditions added to Safe Work Australia's deemed diseases list two years ago, and hundreds of occupational asthmagens.

A Senate committee has called for the Fair Work Act to be amended to include the WHS concept of the PCBU, and for gig-economy companies like Uber and Airtasker to be held to account for workers' safety and access to injury compensation.

• Zero tolerance promised for height-safety blitz in NSW;
  
• Dangerous goods restrictions increased in WA; and
  
• Injured ADF members' access to rehab accelerated.

• Catastrophic injury and pension Bill receives assent;
  
• New WHS Code of Practice commencing in Qld; and
  
• Rail safety laws amended nationally and in Qld.

The ACT Government has scrapped plans to abandon Comcare and establish its own workers' compensation scheme for its 21,000 public servants.

• SWA reforms enable international collaboration;
  
• Qld promotes new Wiring Rules and issues fatality alert; and
  
• Anti-violence Bill defeated in Tas, but PTSD laws flagged.

The Federal Government has introduced a Bill to align compensation laws with the national insurance scheme for catastrophically injured workers, and ensure older injured workers don't lose their benefits before they reach the pension age.