This Member Advice provides important information about:

  • Upcoming Australian Industry Group events:
    • National Employers Work Health and Safety Summit (NEWHS) 
  • Legislative change:
    • Queensland: Repealing of new powers for Health and Safety Representatives and Work Health and Safety Entry Permit Holders
    • Queensland: Work Health and Safety (High Risk Plant) Amendment Regulation 2026.
  • Inquiries and public consultation:
    • Safe Work Australia: Impact analysis for crane licensing review
    • Safe Work Australia: Ports and Vessels: Improving crane safety – Submissions invited
    • Tasmania: Proposed Mines Work Health and Safety (Supplementary Requirements) Regulations 2026.
  • Regulator targeted activities:
    • New South Wales: SafeWork NSW deploys specialist psychological inspectors .
  • Publications or resources of interest:
    • National: Engineered stone prohibition – 2026 implementation focus
    • Safe Work Australia: Model Work Health and Safety Code of Practice finalised: Managing the risks of biological hazards at work
    • Safe Work Australia: Advancing the evidence SWA 2026 research update.
  • Opportunities to engage in policy discussions that are not public commentprocesses, with a list of active discussions.

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