This attached Advice provides important information about Safety and Workers’ Compensation issues relevant to Members, including:

• Amendments to the Model WHS Regulations  related to engineered stone and updating of references to Australian Standards.
• Information about changes to workers’ compensation premiums in multiple jurisdictions, including increases in  New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
• Changes to weekly benefits for workers compensation in Victoria.
• Commonwealth review of the Federal Safety Commissioner, including consideration of expanding the scheme to industries that supply goods and services to the Commonwealth Government, beyond the building and construction industry which is currently covered.
• New South Wales review of twenty pre-WHS codes of practice.
• Queensland review of the Electrical Safety Act.
• Links to recently published guidance material.