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• Drug testing rules introduced in another jurisdiction; and
  
• New designer drug detected at workplaces.

The future of harmonised work safety laws in Western Australia will be in the hands of the next State Government, with a regulator today confirming that the WHS Bill for the resources sector won't be introduced before the March 2017 election.

Australia has moved one step closer to providing free access to Standards referenced in work health and safety laws and other legislation, with the Western Australian Government agreeing to push the initiative nationally.

• New workplace resources launched for R U OK?Day; and
  
• Petitioners demand prompt action on FIFO safety Code.

• Admin control fails to prevent fatality and fine;
  
• Ventilation code and WHS changes released for comment;
  
• NSW launches six-year work safety "roadmap"; and
  
• Correction on fatality.

Stakeholders are being urged to comment on proposed WHS Regulations for the Western Australian resources sector, which include 51 "key" changes and do not align with the national model WHS Regulations.

• Modernised WHS laws postponed in WA;
  
• Blood-test Bill passes in NT; and
  
• Electrical, truck and fume alerts issued.

A report informing the development of harmonised WHS laws for general industry in Western Australia has recommended making 132 changes to the national model WHS Regulations before adopting them in the State.

• New workers' comp regulations coming to NSW;
  
• New electrical safety and WHS laws confirmed in WA budget; and
  
• WA extending cancer compensation to all firefighters.

The modernised WHS Bill for the Western Australian resources sector could be amended to make it clear that a worker's right to cease unsafe work extends to protecting the safety of others, under one of range of recommendations in an RIS on the Bill.