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• Easing of COVID restrictions accelerated for offices;
  
• Diesel threshold commences in NSW, regulatory approach revealed;
  
• Company charged with category-1 safety breach of HVNL; and
  
• Did you miss our latest major WHS and COVID review?

Employers will be required to prepare a "silica hazard control statement" and obtain a special licence under proposed Victorian regulations affecting four sectors and 24 sub-industries. Meanwhile, tighter workplace exposure thresholds, including for diesel emissions, take effect in NSW next week.

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.

• Alarms ignored, worker killed, employer fined $540k;
  
• WHS guides for worker accommodation and events released in NSW; and
  
• WHS exemption extended in NSW.

• WHS scrutiny increased by NSW budget, record inspector numbers;
  
• Forty recommendations made for NSW WHS Mines Act; and
  
• Employers told to prepare for bushfire season.

• COVID-19 injury costs to be shared by all NSW employers, under plan; and
  
• Blood-testing Bill aimed at protecting NSW workers.

The principles of NSW's new WHS Code of Practice for managing psychological risks could be applied nationally and lead to prosecutions of employers that fail to prevent mental harm, leading WHS lawyers have warned.

Information-exchange laws that help WHS regulators target employers exposing workers to existing and emerging occupational health risks have passed NSW Parliament, with important amendments. NSW has also made regulations for injured workers whose earnings are affected by COVID-19.

The NSW WHS Act will be amended to impose new duties on PCBUs that "provide food delivery services", if an Opposition Bill (which forms part of a broader safety strategy for gig workers) passes Parliament. Meanwhile, Tasmanian employers have been told to "stay COVID safe" as border restrictions ease.

• New dangerous goods offences and mine rules made in NSW;
  
• Dangerous goods changes and penalties commence in WA; and
  
• WA's presumptive COVID-19 protections take effect.