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A plan to allow workers in a hazardous industry to prove their COVID-19 vaccination status through a "green tick approach" would be too susceptible to human error and could have "catastrophic" WHS consequences, a commission has ruled. Meanwhile, Tasmania has applied its close contact exemptions to more sectors.

• Conduct Omicron risk assessments or face walk-offs, employers told;
  
• Occupational lung diseases targeted in ACT; and
  
• WHS amendments for quads take effect in Tas.

Australia's WHS ministers have agreed to amend the model WHS Regulations to prescribe control measures for psychological risks, and significantly increase safety penalties, but proposed industrial manslaughter laws were voted down at their meeting yesterday.

• Substandard electrical work created fatal risk, individual fined;
  
• Workers' comp fraudster caught doing ride-share work;
  
• Inspection launch highlights work-related COVID duties in Vic; and
  
• New gas safety framework commences in Tas.

• Site-specific induction overlooked before powerlines incident;
  
• High WHS fines for mines pass Tas Parliament; and
  
• SWA urges duty holders to eliminate common fatality risk.

• Work safety incidents attract second round of fines;
  
• WHS changes creating new PCBU duties for quad bikes in Tas; and
  
• NSW workers invited to challenge past injury payments.

• WHS fines increased eight-fold under Bill for Tas mines; and
  
• Union and officials cop $202k in workplace safety and entry fines.

• Regulator releases more details on WHS recklessness case;
  
• Revised WHS Code for first aid adopted by Tas; and
  
• NSW freezes workers' comp premiums for COVID-19 pandemic.

• Federal Court concerned by timing of HSR's dismissal;
  
• Anti-violence Bills introduced in two states; and
  
• Workers' comp Bill removes step-down payments for Tas police.

Workers should never under any circumstances be put in a position where they are the "first line of defence" against approaching vehicles, a coronial inquest into the death of a traffic controller has warned.