119 articles are classified in All Articles > Legislation, regulation and caselaw > Workplace safety legislation, regulations, standards and codes > Western Australia
> Tougher worker health surveillance rules applied in WA; > International Standard for work-related safety signs released; and > Female injury rate and pandemic show need for WHS change: ACTU.
> New diesel threshold takes immediate effect in WA; > Federal Bill creates new framework for chemical risk controls; > Change management process missing at time of tank rupture; and > Safety inspectors rebuild failed structure for fatality probe.
More than one in three of the hundreds of COVID-19-related workers' compensation claims lodged in Australia involve mental health issues, new data from Safe Work Australia shows. Meanwhile, Western Australia has introduced a Bill extending its tough penalties for pandemic-related violence against frontline workers.
> Workplace exposure thresholds halved in WA; > KFC operator failed to provide safety supervision; and > Did you miss OHS Alert's latest quarterly update?
Western Australia has taken a critical step closer to implementing industrial manslaughter laws and joining the harmonised WHS regime, with its Work Health and Safety Bill 2019 passing the Upper House with amendments last night.
> New dangerous goods offences and mine rules made in NSW; > Dangerous goods changes and penalties commence in WA; and > WA's presumptive COVID-19 protections take effect.
> New exposure thresholds, height Code commence in two states; > Worker fined for reversing forklift without looking; and > Duty holders warned after rolling-vehicle death.
> COVID-19 and silica updates from NSW, Vic, WA and SWA; > Manslaughter laws come with broader definition of workplace death; and > Inventory overhauled for new risk-based chemical safety system.
