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• FIFO worker handed COVID fine for leaving room;
  
• Fatality fine and blitz send height warning to employers; and
  
• Asbestos-levy cut to save businesses $1.2m in Tas.

• PCBUs told to eliminate lung risks, on SWA campaign launch; and
  
• New safety charges follow $150k penalty, as fatality alerts issued.

Employers covered by the Commonwealth WHS Act will receive training on preventing workplace s-xual harassment, under one of a string of safety-related measures included in the Federal Government's 2021-22 budget, delivered last night.

• WHS manslaughter Bill introduced ahead of national vote; and
  
• Missing asbestos register and burns prompt fine and warnings.

A global employer will down tools and conduct meetings on minimising occupational cancer risks, for World Day for Safety and Health at Work today. World safety day has also prompted renewed calls for Australia-wide industrial manslaughter provisions and an accelerated response to the review of the model WHS laws.

A PCBU has been fined for failing to report a head knock to a regulator, while a worker who should have refused his employer's request to carry out unsafe work has been fined over a co-worker's injuries, and a man has been penalised for his "disgraceful" asbestos breaches.

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.

• Families call for nationwide industrial manslaughter laws;
  
• Agencies directed to identify and assess asbestos in WA; and
  
• Asbestos found in imported forklifts and gas cylinders.

• Employer fined in latest action on coffee burns;
  
• Labour-hire workers not properly trained; and
  
• PCBU and directors fined for disregarding asbestos regulations.

SafeWork NSW has committed to ensuring inspectors' decisions to issue prohibition notices aren't driven by political pressures, and to pushing WHS reforms at a national level, after the State Ombudsman found the regulator imposed unreasonable asbestos-related requirements on a local council.