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• Taskforce formed to tackle deadly work disease;
  
• Diving safety guidance overhauled for first time in 15 years; and
  
• Alerts issued after deaths, other incidents in five jurisdictions.

• WHS Code changes expand enforcement options in Qld;
  
• Proposed dangerous goods Regulations could cut costs in Vic;
  
• Fatality points regulator to alleged underpayments; and
  
• SWA releases priority industry "snapshots".

An employer has avoided an amputation-related safety prosecution after conducting a gap analysis of its work practices and launching a safety leadership program focusing on the role of human factors in incidents.

A worker's purported ignorance of committing a WHS breach did not invalidate the prohibition notice issued to his employer, an industrial commission has ruled.

A company that controlled a work site where three fatalities occurred within six weeks has successfully challenged the admissibility of components of an "expert's" report in a coronial inquest into the deaths.

• Contractor not informed of chemical hazard;
  
• Procurement policy focuses on WHS performance; and
  
• Major review of WHS compliance regime launched in ACT.

• Extended WHS powers recommended in Grenfell review;
  
• Jail time guaranteed under anti-violence changes; and
  
• Second employer fined over severe no-go-zone injuries.

• Decision-making skills trump complex safety procedures;
  
• PCBUs warned of new height safety fines; and
  
• Workers' comp developments announced in SA and Qld.

A company director has been handed a record-high fine for work health and safety breaches that occurred through his "consent or connivance", and permanently injured a teenage worker.

• Anti-phone work safety policy applies to stationary vehicles; and
  
• WHS charges withdrawn with safety officer pledge.