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 comment processes, with a list of active discussions.