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• Free workplace toolkit tackles perinatal depression;
  
• Health assessment breaches attract civil penalties;
  
• RTW training modules released, while icare winners announced; and
  
• Alerts issued in four states after fatality and other incidents.

• WHS regulator issues Christmas party warning and safety alert;
  
• New WHS Code of Practice introduced in Qld;
  
• Safety inspectors' powers increase with passing of OPGGS Bill;
  
• Journey claims restored by NSW private member's Bill; and
  
• New WorkSafe Vic chief and chair announced.

• Manslaughter offence without limitation periods introduced;
  
• WHS Code released and new exposure threshold flagged in Qld; and
  
• SWA releases guide for hazardous prefabricated concrete sector.

Queensland has introduced new safety laws to avert the risk of regulatory capture and hand the prosecution of "serious" offences in the resources sector to the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor, in the latest of a series of reforms including $4 million fines.

• New WHS rules for heat flagged in climate change plan;
  
• Qld makes new safety regulations and deletes new safety rule;
  
• Alerts issued after string of mobile plant incidents and panel collapse; and
  
• Everything you need to know from April, May and June.

• Vic calls for workplace defibrillators, offers resources in 14 languages;
  
• Fatigue management regulations extended in WA, alerts issued; and
  
• Combustible cladding bans coming to Qld.

• Two individuals fined over fatal fall from mobile plant;
  
• Nearly 1,000 improvement notices issued in safety blitz; and
  
• Australia's first occupational dust diseases register commences.

The Queensland Government has failed in its appeal against a judgment that purportedly saved a PCBU more than $2.6 million in electrical safety compliance costs, but will look to major legislative changes to address its safety concerns.

A PCBU has successfully challenged the validity of new work safety regulations and purportedly saved itself $2.6 million in compliance costs, but the Queensland Government is lodging an appeal and seeking to stay the ruling.

• Employer and director fined $330k for fatal height breaches;
  
• Winter safety tips and precast panel alert issued in ACT; and
  
• Safety regulations for mine medical records tweaked in Qld.