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• 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.

• Anti-bullying laws locked in for WA's IR overhaul;
  
• New regulations tackle emerging electrocution risk in Qld; and
  
• Gas safety and work health laws pass in Qld.

• Independent WHS prosecutor appointed in Australian first; and
  
• Two employers fined over single maintenance incident.

WHS amendments prompted by the Dreamworld disaster are commencing in Queensland in eight weeks, while the national model WHS laws could be amended to prevent devices covered by a prohibition notice in one jurisdiction being transferred to and used in another.

• Govt improves asbestos hotline and promises tougher laws;
  
• New WHS Code, WHS portal and EWP "shop" for Qld, NSW and WA;
  
• ACT granted workers' comp self-insurance licence;
  
• Harassment inquiry calls for temporary confidentiality waivers;
  
• Evacuation breaches dominate WA retail blitz; and
  
• Pain-reduction plan wins $5k in SWA competition.

• Safety laws aligned with WHS Act in Qld;
  
• Duty holders face "sabotage" risk under NSW asbestos Bill; and
  
• New flexible working rules commence in 10 days.

• Notification laws for work-related dust and pollution tightened; and
  
• More than 100 WHS notices issued in silica blitz.

Maximum workplace health and safety fines for Queensland mines have increased 15-fold to nearly $4 million, following the passing of a long-planned amendment Bill that also introduces on-the-spot penalties exceeding $130,000.

• Employer fails to learn from hazardous substance audit; and
  
• New hazardous substance and cladding laws made in three states.

• Inquiry into OHS avoidance and on-demand work launched in Vic;
  
• Dust safety amendments and start date clarified in Qld;
  
• NSW steps up fatality-reduction targets, releases new WHS plan; and
  
• SWA calls for "People's Choice" funding applications.