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• WHS regulator offers tips for controlling harassment risks;
  
• WHS Bill affecting parliamentarians passes in ACT; and
  
• Workplace safety laws aligned to address lead (Pb) risks in Qld.

• GHS 7 reminder issued as WHS guidance updated; and
  
• Safer exposure limit demanded for common workplace carcinogen.

• Individual convicted, again, after challenging WHS notices; and
  
• Rail safety laws overhauled in WA to ensure national consistency.

Safe Work Australia has published a new model WHS Code of Practice for tower cranes, which does not include an explicit ban - recently applied by the ACT - on a hazardous method for lifting loads.

• Work-related diseases registry to enable WHS actions; and
  
• Many WHS notices issued to stone sites, health monitoring poor.

New anti-violence jail terms of up to 11 years will help improve the safety of retail workers and reduce the alarmingly high numbers of assaults and abuse in the sector, according to the NSW Government and one of Australia's largest employers.

The South Australian Government has revealed plans to introduce industrial manslaughter laws to Parliament, make a string of changes to the State WHS Act, and start overhauling the WHS regulator's case management system, all within the next financial year.

• International treaties impact on workplace safety;
  
• OHS test forms part of new child employment laws in Vic; and
  
• SRC Directions amended.

• PCBUs reminded of the four principles of WHS duties;
  
• Safety Code for traffic management overhauled in Vic; and
  
• New distraction cameras detect thousands of breaches in a month.

From next week, employers in Canberra will have a duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault to a WHS regulator, under new laws that also ban insurance against WHS penalties.