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

• Endorsed industrial death principles released by SWA;
  
• Dangerous goods and environmental duties amended in Vic; and
  
• Labour-hire scheme with WHS clauses starts in ACT tomorrow.

Australia's WHS ministers have agreed to amend the model WHS Regulations to prescribe control measures for psychological risks, and significantly increase safety penalties, but proposed industrial manslaughter laws were voted down at their meeting yesterday.

The ACT Government has confirmed plans to transfer the offence of industrial manslaughter from the Crimes Act to its WHS laws, in a move that is likely to increase the maximum fine by millions of dollars.

Safe Work Australia has updated the model WHS Regulations and its guidance on the meaning of "person conducting a business or undertaking", while WHS provisions have been amended in NSW and South Australia, and the ACT has established a public register for reporting infringements by WHS licensees.

WHS entry permit holders are permitted, from today, to photograph or film suspected safety contraventions at ACT workplaces, under a Bill that also adopts $500,000 "prohibited asbestos" fines and amends workers' compensation laws.

• Coroner issues unique workplace fatality warning; and
  
• Employers urged to better new silica threshold in ACT.

• NSW's COVID-19 work recovery tool guided by 100 years of crises;
  
• SA employers should expect COVID call from a WHS inspector;
  
• Vic workers told to keep working at home; and
  
• Start date for ACT's labour-hire licensing scheme confirmed.

• Mandatory fatigue system and KPIs advised by SA inquiry; and
  
• Labour-hire safety scheme introduced in another jurisdiction.

• Gig economy workers demand WHS work groups and HSRs;
  
• Tough dangerous goods penalties and WHS changes pass in Vic and ACT; and
  
• Work safety and RTW winners announced in NSW and Vic.

• Workplace champions key to reducing excessive sitting;
  
• Federal Govt bans unprotected quads, with transitional periods; and
  
• ACT amends WHS Act, hints at manslaughter changes.