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News and media
For all media enquiries, including interview requests, please contact media@worksafe.act.gov.au
Quarterly Newsletter
Starting in 2025, WorkSafe ACT is releasing a quarterly newsletter. In this first edition you can find updates on our recent prosecutions, agency initiatives, insights into our proactive, reactive and intelligence-led campaigns and other important WHS engagements.
| Date | Edition | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2025 | Q2 July 2025 | WorkSafe ACT Quarterly Newsletter - Q2 July 2025 |
| 17 April 2025 | Q1 April 2025 | WorkSafe ACT Quarterly Newsletter - Q1 April 2025 |
Latest news and media releases
2025
| Date | NEWS TYPE | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2025 | Media Release | Media Release: Court imposes $400,000 fine for asbestos violations at renovation site |
| 13 May 2025 | Media Release | Media Release: Over $1 million in fines imposed following latest sentencing |
| 24 April 2025 | Media Alert | Media Alert: International Workers' Memorial 2025 |
| 21 February 2025 | Media Release | Media Release: JB Slab Pty Ltd convicted of WHS offence |
| 23 January 2025 | Media Release | Media Release: Non-Compliance with Asbestos Legislation |
2024
2023
2022
2021
Historic media releases
Access media releases issued in previous years here.
Construction industry newsletters
| Date | Lead story |
|---|---|
| February 2020 edition | Guilty plea for 2016 workplace fatality |
| January 2020 edition | Priorities for 2020 and precast concrete panel audit program |
| November 2020 edition | High vis vest causes first degree burns |
| September 2019 edition | National safe work month events |
| July 2019 edition | Work-related hand and wrist injuries |
| June 2019 edition | Precast concrete panels |
| May 2019 edition | Health and safety committee training |
| March 2019 edition | Update on the review of the HSR and HSC legislative changes |
| February 2019 edition | Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill |
| December 2018 edition | Working in hot weather |
Historic Construction industry newsletters
Access historic construction industry newsletters here.
Social Media Terms of Use
WorkSafe ACT’s social media terms of use for community etiquette, responding to and moderating social media comments, and your privacy. To view the Terms of Use, please visit here.
More information:
- A Statement by the WHS Commissioner: Issuing of prohibition notice to the Legislative Assembly
- Agnew Building Supplies Pty Ltd Sentencing
- Better Building Holdings pleads guilty
- Better ho-ho-hope Santa gets safe working conditions
- Bonded asbestos contamination confirmed in ACT Mulch
- Capitol Chilled Foods Sentencing
- Children's Play Centres
- Cross Border Cooperation focused on Workplace Safety
- Don't be a Grinch to retail and hospitality workers this season
- Don't fall for unsafe work this Christmas
- Historic construction industry newsletters
- Historic media releases
- Intelligence-led Inspection Campaign
- Media Alert - International Workers' Memorial Day
- Media Alert: International Workers' Memorial 2025
- Media Alert: WorkSafe ACT Continues Industry Breakfast Series: Focus on Education
- Media Release - International Workers' Memorial Day
- Media Release: Concerning rates of non-compliance with asbestos legislation during renovations and demolition
- Media Release: Court imposes $400,000 fine for asbestos violations at renovation site
- Media Release: Metal Manufactures Pty Ltd and Transport Canberra and City Services Convicted of WHS Offences
- Media Release: Put Safety First and Get Home Safe
- MEDIA RELEASE: Over $1 Million in fines imposed latest sentencing
- Media Release: JB Slab Pty Ltd convicted of WHS offence
- National Safe Work Month 2022
- National Safe Work Month 2023
- New ACT Asbestos Advice Notice for use from 1 July 2023
- NEW Codes of Practice coming into effect in November
- New Managing Psychosocial Risks at work Code of Practice
- Occupational lung diseases Strategy and management of silica dust at construction sites
- Operation Safe Prospect and the Residential construction industry
- Potential Privacy Breach with Canberra Health Services
- Remembrance service for Ben Catanzariti
- Reminder: Silica training must be completed by 1 July 2023
- Reminder: Workplace Sexual Assault is now a notifiable incident
- Repeat Offenders in Residential Construction Put on Notice
- Request for Information: Changes to Silica Dust Requirements
- Safe Work Month 2023 theme and campaign launch
- Safe Work Month 2023: Week 1 - Vulnerable Workers
- Safe Work Month 2023: Week 2 - Psychosocial Hazards
- Safe Work Month 2023: Week 3 - ACTPS & New ACTPS Strategy
- Safe Work Month 2023: Week 4 - All Workers, All Workplaces
- Safety incidents at Groovin The Moo
- Sentencing for 2016 workplace fatality
- Sexual Assault is now a notifiable incident in the ACT
- Small quantity of friable asbestos identified on residential site
- Social Media Terms of Use
- Statement from the WHS Commissioner: Compliance with the Work Health and Safety Amendment Regulation 2022 (No1) Crystalline Silica
- Translated Guidance Notes
- Update on bonded asbestos contamination in ACT mulch
- Update on Bonded Asbestos Contamination in ACT Mulch
- Update on bonded asbestos contamination in ACT mulch: 4 negative results received
- Workers' Compensation in the ACT
- Workers' Memorial Day and World Day for Safety and Health at Work
- Workplace fatality sentencing
- WorkSafe ACT Begins Enforcing The Code of Practice for Managing Silica Dust in the Workplace
- WorkSafe ACT launches Residential Construction Strategy 2022-24
- WorkSafe ACT launches Strategy to prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders
- WorkSafe ACT Operation Safe Prospect Campaign
- WorkSafe ACT thanks businesses for their cooperation with bonded asbestos contamination investigation
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