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The start dates for a range of new WHS clauses have been postponed in Western Australia, while a Bill providing presumptive compensation to certain workers with PTSD has been reintroduced in South Australia.

• Workplace justice warning issued for WHS Code commencement;
  
• New permanent impairment guide made under Comcare scheme; and
  
• SWMS guidance note issued in ACT.

• Workers' comp fines increased by 1,000% in NSW; and
  
• SWA acts on WHS ministers' meeting with prohibition proposals.

Employers and insurers will be banned from attending injured workers' medical appointments, under one of hundreds of provisions of a major Bill that completely rewrites Western Australia's workers' compensation laws, and implements the recommendations from a legislative review conducted nearly a decade ago.

• Fatigue "misalignment" events ignored prior to crash-fire death;
  
• WHS visits tumble in SA in COVID era;
  
• Inconsistent understanding of silica risks identified in ACT; and
  
• SIRA to target overservicing in the workers' comp system.

Seven kinds of cancer have been added to the list of cancers, in the Commonwealth Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, which are presumed to be caused by firefighting duties.

• Major WHS reforms and new s-xual assault duties pass in ACT; and
  
• Workplace fire risk increased by poor administrative controls.

• Director barred for safety breaches, consignor targeted;
  
• Compliance Codes for silica made and revoked in Vic;
  
• Workers' comp changes introduced in Tas;
  
• Healthy workplaces service launched in SA; and
  
• Cheong gets permanent WHS director role in NT.

S-xual harassment committed in "connection with work" will be expressly prohibited under the Fair Work regime, while building productivity laws will re-focus on WHS outcomes, under two of many changes in a major Bill. Meanwhile, new domestic violence leave entitlements have passed Parliament.

• New WHS Code made under Commonwealth jurisdiction;
  
• Frontline workers protected by lengthy jail terms in NSW;
  
• Dust compensation changes commence in NSW; and
  
• WHS notification rules for lead (Pb) tweaked in SA.