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The dispute over union powers to enter sites to assist HSRs appears to be far from over, with a safety regulator "considering its options" in relation to the full Federal Court's Friday decision on the matter.
Two of the first entities charged with reckless conduct under harmonised WHS laws have failed to overturn the charges, with a full court rejecting their claim that their duty to "other persons" was limited to the exact time of their alleged recklessness.
The Victorian Government has agreed, in principle, to adopt the national model WHS Act's broad definition of worker and consultation obligations, as recommended by a 2016 inquiry into the labour-hire sector.
A parliamentary committee will inquire into an abandoned fatality-related WHS prosecution, while the powers of South Australian HSRs will be aligned with other states, if initiatives moved by the Greens are passed.
A school has entered the first enforceable undertaking under New Zealand's new workplace health and safety laws - based on Australia's model WHS Act - after two students suffered lacerations in a scene simulating their throats being cut.
In an important decision under the model WHS laws, a court has found that a Queensland employer's fatality-related fine should have been nearly three times higher than the one imposed, after examining cases from other harmonised jurisdictions.
