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• COVID prohibition notices extended, OHS-style laws commencing; and
  
• Workplace manslaughter warning issued on release of death toll.

• Pre-lockdown work restrictions restored, with amendments;
  
• Automatic mental injury payments pass Vic Parliament; and
  
• OHS bans extended to prevent regulatory gap.

• GHS 7 webinar covers new rules on gases and eye irritants;
  
• Work buildings included in high-risk cladding ban in Vic; and
  
• Alerts on entanglement death and access duties issued in NT.

Employers will be required to prepare a "silica hazard control statement" and obtain a special licence under proposed Victorian regulations affecting four sectors and 24 sub-industries. Meanwhile, tighter workplace exposure thresholds, including for diesel emissions, take effect in NSW next week.

• OHS enforcement stepped up in Vic's latest COVID-19 Bill;
  
• Consultation launched for flagged gig safety changes; and
  
• WA introduces COVID-19 disaster payments for workers.

The COVID-19 pandemic and changes forced on employers have given safety professionals a unique opportunity to redesign work practices to eliminate sources of harm, Australian occupational health experts say. Meanwhile, Victoria has extended its state of disaster for COVID-19.

• Employers face protracted COVID-19 restrictions in Vic;
  
• Qld responds to coronavirus cases with face-mask requirement; and
  
• Pop-up COVID clinics set up for freight workers in NSW.

Employers could be fined nearly $200,000 for failing to comply with new notification regulations for COVID-19 in Victoria. Meanwhile, a WHS regulator has issued an alert to help duty holders identify fake respirators during the pandemic.

• COVID-19 and silica updates from NSW, Vic, WA and SWA;
  
• Manslaughter laws come with broader definition of workplace death; and
  
• Inventory overhauled for new risk-based chemical safety system.

• Tougher workplace manslaughter penalties pass in Vic;
  
• OHS amendments and guidebook for hazardous substance commence; and
  
• Electrically unsafe employer fined over severe injuries.