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All NSW workplaces including offices and warehouses will be required to comply with the State's QR code system for the COVID-19 pandemic within a matter of days, under a plan to protect workers and quickly emerge from the current lockdown.

• NSW restores work-from-home COVID-19 requirement; and
  
• OHS changes flagged for anti-harassment plan in Vic.

NSW's WHS regulations are being amended to mandate PPE and safety induction training for gig economy riders, but the State Government has been accused of shielding "Silicon Valley behemoths" and blaming workers for a string of fatalities.

Australia's first WHS Code of Practice on eliminating and minimising psychosocial risks has taken effect in NSW, and will, according to the State Government, remove the "guesswork" from tackling the issue. NSW has also launched its work safety awards for 2021.

Australia's WHS ministers have agreed to amend the model WHS Regulations to prescribe control measures for psychological risks, and significantly increase safety penalties, but proposed industrial manslaughter laws were voted down at their meeting yesterday.

• WHS manslaughter Bill introduced ahead of national vote; and
  
• Missing asbestos register and burns prompt fine and warnings.

• FWC accelerates review of paid FDV leave proposal; and
  
• WHS Code of Practice updated in NSW.

A second PCBU has been convicted over a worker's two-metre fall, and fined more heavily than the first PCBU, after its failure to consult and coordinate with other parties on a task it knew to be dangerous resulted in the incident.

• Workplace COVID check-ins amended in Vic and Qld;
  
• NSW restricts use of hazardous extinguisher foams; and
  
• WHS Act extended to island.

Ahead of introducing a WHS Bill creating the offence of industrial manslaughter, the NSW Opposition has highlighted the deterrent effect of tougher safety laws, and raised concerns about a recent case where a company avoided category-1 charges for a fatality-causing offence "of the utmost objective gravity".