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• Health and safety amendments announced for Qld mines;
  
• SA dumps labour-hire scheme with safety provisions; and
  
• Emergency worker protections pass in Vic and Tas, as NT issues warning.

Keeping on top of all the safety duties in the Heavy Vehicle National Law should prove challenging in the coming months, with: WHS-style chain-of-responsibility laws starting soon; more amendments passing in the host state; the regulator flagging fatigue changes; and a commission vowing to entirely re-write the legislation.

• Regulations amended and remade in NSW, Qld and WA; and
  
• Police target unsafe electrical syndicate, union blames self-regulation.

• Dreamworld-inspired WHS changes likely by year's end;
  
• New WHS consultation rules commencing in ACT in four months;
  
• Victoria agrees to significantly increase energy safety fines; and
  
• WA alters workers' comp procedure.

• New workplace surveillance laws flagged;
  
• OHS-style environment laws and safety code progress; and
  
• Alerts, notices issued after death, escort breaches and other incidents.

• WHS Code changes expand enforcement options in Qld;
  
• Proposed dangerous goods Regulations could cut costs in Vic;
  
• Fatality points regulator to alleged underpayments; and
  
• SWA releases priority industry "snapshots".

• Extended officer duties and tougher road penalties pass; and
  
• Bill combines OHS consultation provisions.

Stronger, WHS-style chain-of-responsibility (CoR) laws for the transport and logistics sectors will commence in four months, imposing a positive duty of care on all parties that can influence road safety, and requiring officers to exercise due diligence to ensure their companies comply with their duties.

• High work safety fines approved with contractor proviso;
  
• New plan tackles manufacturing sector's high incident rate; and
  
• Workplace skin cancer checks offered in SA.

• PCBU fined $500k, but parent company acquitted;
  
• Confined-space fine increased by 83%;
  
• Record-low workers' comp premium rate announced in SA; and
  
• Unsafe labour-hire firms warned at launch of Qld licensing scheme.