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• Company charged with endangering customers, after fatality;
  
• Inspectors issue hundreds of WHS notices in three-day blitz; and
  
• WHS resources for new audiometric duties in NSW released.

• WHS tool for extreme weather launched, applies to city PCBUs;
  
• Seven more safety Codes under review in NSW;
  
• WHS Codes made and varied in NT, new safety laws delayed; and
  
• Roll-away alert issued in SA.

New anti-violence jail terms of up to 11 years will help improve the safety of retail workers and reduce the alarmingly high numbers of assaults and abuse in the sector, according to the NSW Government and one of Australia's largest employers.

• OHS fines up in Vic, premium hike confirmed;
  
• Supply chain probe demanded after second school bus crash; and
  
• Motion to push for engineered stone ban blocked by NSW Labor.

• Five workplace safety Codes under review in NSW; and
  
• WHS regulator hits the slopes.

• Fatality charge coincides with industrial gate warning;
  
• Long-term WHS exemption expiring in NSW; and
  
• Comcare releases Q&A on new psychosocial regulations.

• New WHS laws, codes and bans to follow NSW election; and
  
• Positive harassment-elimination duties pass in ACT.

Unions have welcomed the NSW Labor Opposition's new policies to ban certain engineered stone products and crackdown on dusty workplaces in the tunnelling industry, while one senior unionist has reiterated plans to ban engineered stone through WHS cease-work provisions unless all Australian governments follow Labor's lead.

• Many WHS Codes amended for new GHS-7 regime;
  
• Tas adopts psychosocial WHS Code and regulations; and
  
• NSW enforcing new WHS rules for gig work.

• Second duty holder fined over reversing-plant fatality;
  
• WHS inspectors wearing cameras, WHS changes commencing;
  
• Resources sector launches anti-harassment campaign; and
  
• New safety guide helps councils deal with asbestos risks.