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TUE
2:02PM

Customer-endangerment charges; Safety blitzes; more

  • Company charged with endangering customers, after fatality;
  • Inspectors issue hundreds of WHS notices in three-day blitz; and
  • WHS resources for new audiometric duties in NSW released.

MON
3:37PM

WHS planning tool for weather risks; Varied Codes; more

  • WHS tool for extreme weather launched, applies to city PCBUs;
  • Seven more safety Codes under review in NSW;
  • WHS Codes made and varied in NT, new safety laws delayed; and
  • Roll-away alert issued in SA.

THU
2:26PM

SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit; and much more

  • SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit for common carcinogen;
  • SWA makes hundreds of changes to chemical info system;
  • WHS guides for pre-2004 buildings and roll-aways released; and
  • Dreamworld-inspired WHS Code made in Qld.


MON
3:51PM

WHS psychosocial set completed with SA development

All of Australia's eight harmonised WHS jurisdictions have now formally applied or committed to adopting provisions explicitly requiring PCBUs to manage psychosocial risks through a risk management process.


MON
11:14AM

High WHS fines, industrial manslaughter laws and PTSD provisions added to IR Bill

Businesses and public authorities covered by the Commonwealth jurisdiction's WHS laws could soon face the toughest WHS penalties in the country, under a major amendment Bill that will also introduce presumptive workers' compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder.



WED
1:10PM

Seventh WHS jurisdiction adopts psychosocial changes

All but one of Australia's eight harmonised WHS jurisdictions have now introduced the new model clauses on psychosocial risks, with the ACT being the latest to do so, while joining a subgroup that has chosen to prescribe the use of the hierarchy of controls for these risks.


FRI
2:33PM

THU
2:14PM

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