Browsing: WHS legislation, regulations, standards and codes (NSW) | Page 9

• NSW updates 23 WHS Codes, adopts first-aid changes;
  
• SWA releases 50 draft evaluation reports and exposure thresholds;
  
• Draft regulations for Vic's OHS-style environment laws published; and
  
• Emergency breathing apparatus defective.

NSW's WHS laws are likely to be amended to prescribe an exposure limit for diesel emissions if Safe Work Australia declines to add diesel to the workplace exposure standards. Meanwhile, a regulator has warned that 50 per cent of respirable dust exceedances result from maintenance cleaning.

• Draft WHS Code targets 6,000-plus workers and fall risks in NSW;
  
• New OHS Regulations deliver on silicosis plan in Vic;
  
• WHS Regulations for lead and diving amended in NT; and
  
• WHS innovation and research grants offered by Tas.

An employer that over-relied on verbally instructing workers on the dangers of a frequently used machine has been convicted and fined for WHS breaches, after a "vulnerable" worker's leg was severely injured.

• Two-year exemption from new WHS clauses granted in NSW;
  
• Vic passes controversial cancer Bill, offers more WorkWell grants; and
  
• Alerts issued after fatalities, traumatic amputations and other incidents.

• 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.

NSW Labor says it will introduce industrial manslaughter laws, double SafeWork's compliance functions and make it harder for employers to conduct covert surveillance of injured workers, if it wins this weekend's State election.

• Workplace first-aid changes boost emergency response;
  
• New WHS Code takes effect in NSW;
  
• Alerts issued after Brazil disaster, other incidents; and
  
• Vic amendments remove unsafe loophole for nursing.

The six-Bill package establishing Australia's new risk-based regulatory scheme for industrial chemicals has passed the Senate with tighter-than-planned rules for "introducers". Meanwhile, NSW has made further amendments to its dangerous goods regulations.

• Employer neglected "uncontrolled movement" risks;
  
• Rollover-stability laws extended in NSW; and
  
• Alerts issued after electrocution and panel fall.