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Latest news and media releases
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Historic media releases
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Construction industry newsletters
Date | Lead story |
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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.
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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
- Capitol Chilled Foods Sentencing
- Children's Play Centres
- Cross Border Cooperation focused on Workplace Safety
- Historic construction industry newsletters
- Historic media releases
- 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 4 - All Workers, All Workplaces
- Safety incidents at Groovin The Moo
- Sentencing for 2016 workplace fatality
- Sexual Assault Changes for PCBUs
- Sexual Assault is now a notifiable incident in the ACT
- 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
- 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
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