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• COVID notification rules and $200k-plus penalties extended; and
  
• Safety changes and shame threat accepted for parliamentary workplaces.

• New OHS penalty and sick leave regimes commencing in Vic; and
  
• Workplace exposure standards overhaul: feedback period closing.

Employers will face fines of up to nearly $300,000 for entering into insurance contracts against workplace health and safety fines, under one of a series of safety amendments introduced in Victoria.

• Proclaimed work diseases list applied retrospectively to more conditions;
  
• Warnings issued after structural failure, death and $125k fine; and
  
• New dangerous goods provisions commencing in Vic.

Victoria has announced its average workers' comp premium rate for 2021-22, set aside $550 million for injury support and prevention initiatives, and released a draft Compliance Code on the provision of safe workplace facilities, including toilets, lighting and amenities for employees without fixed worksites.

• Endorsed industrial death principles released by SWA;
  
• Dangerous goods and environmental duties amended in Vic; and
  
• Labour-hire scheme with WHS clauses starts in ACT tomorrow.

• New OHS provisions announced for psych hazards in Vic; and
  
• Comcare to scrap plant rule under WHS Regulations.

• Repeat COVID breaches now attract $10k on-the-spot fines; and
  
• Positive anti-harassment duty imposed on employers in SA Bill.

• Premiums increased for high "serious" workplace injury rate; and
  
• New COVID check-in rule for businesses introduced.

• New standard tackles "one of the deadliest" workplace hazards;
  
• WHS warnings follow carbon monoxide and vehicle incidents; and
  
• Union issues cease-work advice for Sydney smoke and particles.