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Dozens of changes to Western Australia's dangerous goods safety regulations have commenced.

Employers are being advised against starting training for Western Australia's new WHS Act, suggesting planned changes to the "green" Bill will be significant and the Regulations could differ considerably from the national model WHS Regulations.

• Register for our WHS legal lessons webinar;
  
• Regulator releases details of $700k safety fine;
  
• WA welcomed to national rail safety regime; and
  
• Alerts issued after three fatalities and leg amputation.

• Rio subsidiary and individual fined over death and fall; and
  
• WA reveals January 2017 plan for WHS Act and GHS.

Western Australia will amend existing safety Codes of Practice, rather than introduce a new Code, to improve FIFO workers' mental health, according to the State Government's response to the inquiry into the issue. The Government declined to support a recommendation to acknowledge that FIFO workers are at risk of suicide.

• Employer misapplied Fair Work clause when sacking sick worker; and
  
• Seventh jurisdiction joins national rail safety regime.

• Mobile-plant death prompts safety warning;
  
• World-first mine safety Code now available online; and
  
• Queensland honours killed miners.

• Employer and dentist fined after WorkSafe investigations; and
  
• WA introduces world's first safety Code for autonomous mining.

Both unions and a ministerial advisory panel have raised concerns over the sluggish development of Western Australia's mirror WHS laws, while a new report has identified the three greatest hazards faced by the State's mine workers.

Western Australia is banning electrical work on energised installations in response to the Morley Galleria double fatality and the death of a teenage worker in a roof space, while other electricity-related safety regulations commence in the State today.