This Compliance Advice provides information about Safety and Workers’ Compensation issues:

• Victorian Workplace Manslaughter laws take effect 1 July 2020 with increased penalties.
• New South Wales WHS Act amendment Bill passes with changes to offences, a ban on insuring against WHS breaches, and some other minor amendments.
• Working with crystalline silica: Manufactured stone: A new Regulation in NSW; Codes of Practice in other jurisdictions; Other work with silica: The next focus.
• The Western Australian WHS Bill is being considered by Parliamentary Committee with submissions closing on 26 June 2020.
• Workers Compensation: Making sure your industry classification is correct; Victoria temporarily increases notice period for termination of weekly benefits at 130 weeks, increasing entitlement to 156 weeks; Victoria changes claims period used in premium calculation; Queensland introduces a process for verifying that Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinators are appropriately qualified.
• COVID-19 resource material – understanding directions to work from home and requirements for COVID-19 Safety Plans.