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Safe Work Australia has released the 24th edition of its Comparative Performance Monitoring Report, which shows safety regulators in some jurisdictions are increasingly resorting to prohibition notices to shut down unsafe work.

• Major WHS reforms and new s-xual assault duties pass in ACT; and
  
• Workplace fire risk increased by poor administrative controls.

• Safety ban promised through WHS cease-work provisions; and
  
• New anti-harassment duties across seven "activities" pass in NT.

• Chemicals alert issued with GHS transition period expiring;
  
• New WHS dust regulations further amended in ACT;
  
• Controversial ACT COVID notice followed by WHS amendment; and
  
• RTW guide highlights "the most important relationship".

In this major report, OHS Alert examines all the must-know WHS and workers' comp developments from the third quarter of 2022, including the introduction of laws and codes tackling psychosocial hazards, wholesale changes to workplace COVID-19 rules, and the launch of safety prosecutions linked to dozens of COVID deaths.

• Safety regulator controversially closes bullying probe in Vic; and
  
• AiG slams WHS provisions commencing in ACT on Monday.

• Exercise due diligence through Safe Work Month activities; and
  
• Worker fined over fatal reversing-plant incident.

• NSW mandates workplace psychosocial risk controls; and
  
• New WHS Code prohibits work method in ACT.

• Employers' WHS duties extend to laptop cords; and
  
• "Scathing" mine reports trigger WHS audits in SA.

• WHS Code of Practice approved in ACT, in rare move; and
  
• WHS Regulation remade with new diesel rules in NSW.