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Safe Work Australia has updated the model WHS Regulations and its guidance on the meaning of "person conducting a business or undertaking", while WHS provisions have been amended in NSW and South Australia, and the ACT has established a public register for reporting infringements by WHS licensees.

WHS entry permit holders are permitted, from today, to photograph or film suspected safety contraventions at ACT workplaces, under a Bill that also adopts $500,000 "prohibited asbestos" fines and amends workers' compensation laws.

• Coroner issues unique workplace fatality warning; and
  
• Employers urged to better new silica threshold in ACT.

• NSW's COVID-19 work recovery tool guided by 100 years of crises;
  
• SA employers should expect COVID call from a WHS inspector;
  
• Vic workers told to keep working at home; and
  
• Start date for ACT's labour-hire licensing scheme confirmed.

• Mandatory fatigue system and KPIs advised by SA inquiry; and
  
• Labour-hire safety scheme introduced in another jurisdiction.

• Gig economy workers demand WHS work groups and HSRs;
  
• Tough dangerous goods penalties and WHS changes pass in Vic and ACT; and
  
• Work safety and RTW winners announced in NSW and Vic.

• Workplace champions key to reducing excessive sitting;
  
• Federal Govt bans unprotected quads, with transitional periods; and
  
• ACT amends WHS Act, hints at manslaughter changes.

• Walk to work and hold walking meetings tomorrow;
  
• Pre-start checks urged after death, alerts issued in three jurisdictions; and
  
• WHS exemptions made for ACT chemicals, ARPANSA releases guide.

• Employers without "safety resets" to be named in Parliament;
  
• WHS Amendment Bill improves accountability in ACT;
  
• Workers' comp changes for police pass in Tas; and
  
• New dangerous goods guide for all WA duty holders released.

• WHS and surveillance changes unlikely after NSW election result;
  
• Four new WHS Codes of Practice coming to ACT; and
  
• Safety laws made in NT and Tas.