This Member Advice provides important information about:

• October is Safe Work Month
• Australian Industry Group WHS Roadshow – October and November 2025
• Return to Work Innovations - funding for Victorian workplaces
• Legislative changes:
  • New South Wales: effective dates for new WHS provisions in the Act
  • Victoria: Occupational Health and Safety (psychosocial health) Regulations
  • New South Wales: amendments related to demolition work and food delivery riders
  • South Australia: prohibition on claim farming for workers’ compensation claims
  • Tasmania: Engineered stone – reinstallation exemption
  • Tasmania: Issuing of workers’ compensation certificates
  • WHS Codes of Practice – NSW and ACT.
• Safe Work Australia – new model WHS fatigue code of practice
• Bills before parliament:
  
  • ACT: Amends the workers compensation and work health and safety legislation.
• Inquiries and public consultation:
  
  • Best practice review of model WHS laws
  • Queensland high risk plant other than in workplaces
  • Inquiry cannabis in New South Wales – government response.
• Publications of interest
• New silica awareness videos
• Publications of interest
• Opportunities to engage in policy discussion that are not public comment processes.