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

• Industrial manslaughter Bill introduced to NSW Lower House;
  
• New solar safety Standard commences with transitional provisions; and
  
• Offshore laws with "modified" WHS provisions pass Parliament.

• Workplaces demand injury protections for COVID vaccine rollout; and
  
• Mobile phone breaches to be caught by permanent cameras in Qld.

• Exclusion zone missing, nail enters heart, employer fined $250k; and
  
• WHS changes commence in Qld.

• WHS Code remade with significant changes in Qld; and
  
• Qld reveals workers' comp premium rate for 2021-22.

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.

Twenty WHS Codes of Practice have been updated in Queensland, while an amended Code for managing workplace electrical risks has been approved, and asbestos regulations have been changed.

Industrial manslaughter provisions should be amended in Queensland to ensure all companies that negligently cause a worker's death can be prosecuted, according to a major inquiry report that also makes important recommendations on safety metrics.

• WHS amendments in Qld remove national model provisions; and
  
• Height blitz relaunched after "disappointing" results in Vic.

• COVID face coverings can create new work risks, regulator warns;
  
• "Second line of defence" prescribed for Qld mines;
  
• Employers reminded of new quad bike safety standards; and
  
• New online system helps WHS notifications in Tas.

• New exposure thresholds, height Code commence in two states;
  
• Worker fined for reversing forklift without looking; and
  
• Duty holders warned after rolling-vehicle death.