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

• Laws tackling "downright immoral" injury decisions pass in Vic; and
  
• Workplace harassment battled on multiple fronts in Qld.

• New laws tackle "unethical" treatment of injured workers; and
  
• Tank explosions prompt safety charges and fatality alert.

• Pre-lockdown work restrictions restored, with amendments;
  
• Automatic mental injury payments pass Vic Parliament; and
  
• OHS bans extended to prevent regulatory gap.

• All mental injury claims automatically covered by Vic Bill;
  
• New WHS Regulations made for mines in SA, commence soon; and
  
• More COVID isolation payments introduced for SA workers.

• OHS enforcement stepped up in Vic's latest COVID-19 Bill;
  
• Consultation launched for flagged gig safety changes; and
  
• WA introduces COVID-19 disaster payments for workers.

• Work injury and safety changes made by Vic COVID-19 Bill; and
  
• SIRA updates COVID-19 work injury toll and certificate rules.

• Two-year exemption from new WHS clauses granted in NSW;
  
• Vic passes controversial cancer Bill, offers more WorkWell grants; and
  
• Alerts issued after fatalities, traumatic amputations and other incidents.

• Landmark PTSD laws commence as $6m wellbeing plan launched;
  
• Vic reintroduces cancer laws in controversial format; and
  
• Dangerous goods regulations amended in SA.

More than 300 high-risk workplaces will be targeted, work processes will be banned and workers' comp laws could be overhauled, under "unprecedented" silica-dust strategies unveiled in Victoria. Meanwhile, regulators have issued warnings after a series of life-threatening crane incidents and fatalities.

Victoria will introduce industrial manslaughter laws, Australia's highest maximum work safety fine of more than $16 million, and special workers' comp benefits for emergency workers, after Labor retained power in Saturday's State election.