Browsing: WHS Harmonisation (NSW)


TUE
1:01PM

Twenty changes made to model WHS Act, other documents

The national model Work Health and Safety Act, Regulations and related materials have been amended to reflect a wide range of recommendations from Marie Boland's independent review of the laws. Some states have already adopted some of the changes, while other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit soon.


FRI
10:44AM

FRI
3:58PM

WHS Bill increases penalties and bans insurance in NSW

NSW has jumped the gun on the other harmonised jurisdictions by introducing a WHS Amendment Bill that increases fines through a penalty unit system, prohibits insurance against safety fines and facilitates work-related manslaughter prosecutions.


FRI
3:58PM

THU
12:15PM

WHS Bill introduces new powers and police exemptions

NSW is amending its mirror WHS Act to include extraterritorial powers and other recommendations from last year's statutory review, and to exempt police officers from prosecution for WHS breaches committed while dealing with armed offenders.


TUE
8:57AM

Reckless cost-saving ends in first category 1 conviction

A company's failure to follow its own safety management plans, and its desire to save costs on tradespeople and engineers, led to a horror bathroom fatality and the first conviction for reckless conduct under Australia's harmonised WHS regime.



MON
2:13PM

MON
2:02PM

FRI
3:25PM

NSW reviewing pre-WHS Codes and union prosecutions

NSW WHS stakeholders are being asked to comment on whether to retain union-initiated safety prosecutions, and on the utility of the State's 20 pre-harmonisation Codes of Practice, as part of a mandatory statutory review.


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