Browsing: Workers' comp legislation, regulations, standards and codes (ACT)

• COVID-19 triggers broad travel ban for education workers;
  
• Eye rolling can constitute workplace violence;
  
• New injury dispute system being made by upcoming NSW Bill; and
  
• Workers' comp amendments commence in ACT.

• Hazardous chemical site plan, templates and guide released;
  
• Chemicals Bill streamlines agvet system, introduces new sanctions;
  
• Environment laws with WHS clause pass in NT;
  
• Workers' comp changes protect more workers in ACT; and
  
• NSW amends slow-down safety laws.

• Govt improves asbestos hotline and promises tougher laws;
  
• New WHS Code, WHS portal and EWP "shop" for Qld, NSW and WA;
  
• ACT granted workers' comp self-insurance licence;
  
• Harassment inquiry calls for temporary confidentiality waivers;
  
• Evacuation breaches dominate WA retail blitz; and
  
• Pain-reduction plan wins $5k in SWA competition.

• Unsafe employers and supervisor fined;
  
• National risk standard and Vic safety regulations commence; and
  
• New laws underpin ACT's workers' comp self-insurance licence.

• WHS amendments pass and commence in NSW;
  
• Employers' upcoming surveillance rights blocked by ACT Bill; and
  
• Five OHS Compliance Codes published in Vic.

• New safety bans with $1m fines receive assent in NSW;
  
• ACT adopts final model WHS Regulations and extended "wiring rules";
  
• Workers' comp changes progress in ACT and Tas; and
  
• Hazardous substances regulations commence in NZ today.

• High mine safety fines in doubt with upcoming Qld election;
  
• ACT introduces new workers' comp fine and triples death benefits;
  
• PTSD and anti-violence Bills introduced in Tas; and
  
• New laws protect Vic emergency workers from cars used as weapons.

• Anti-violence policy standardised and mandated in Vic;
  
• "Fit notes" compulsory in the ACT soon; and
  
• LPG, amputation, roof and dust alerts issued in Qld.

The ACT Government has scrapped plans to abandon Comcare and establish its own workers' compensation scheme for its 21,000 public servants.

• NSW makes safety regs and code, lauds asbestos changes;
  
• SafeWork SA's new regulatory model commences today; and
  
• Catastrophically injured workers now covered for life in ACT.