Browsing: WHS legislation, regulations, standards and codes (QLD)


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3:15PM

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1:32PM

WHS Bill passes with insurance ban, HSR protections and plan to expand manslaughter provisions

A major work health and safety Bill has passed in Queensland, with amendments aimed at facilitating a plan that could extend industrial manslaughter provisions to bystander deaths, and ensure multiple duty holders can be charged with manslaughter after a fatality.


MON
2:06PM

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2:07PM

FRI
3:00PM

WHS amendments introduced, as every targeted PCBU fails WHS compliance test

Provisions for health and safety representatives and entry rights could be amended by a new Queensland WHS Bill, while a WHS blitz has found that every targeted business in one industry was breaching its health and safety obligations.


FRI
3:54PM

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
12:53PM


WED
3:42PM

Major WHS amendments coming, new Code commences

PCBUs will soon be: required to proactively facilitate the election of health and safety representatives; banned from blocking WHS entry permit holders through technicalities or impractical induction requirements; and handed on-the-spot fines for failing to provide adequate toilets, under review recommendations accepted in Queensland.


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