This Member Advice provides important information about:

• Ai Group consultation with Members in relation to Safe Work Australia documents: proposal to amend the workplace exposure standard (WES) for aluminium welding fumes; review of health monitoring and air monitoring obligations; draft Code of practice for biological hazards.
• Member forum – psychosocial risk controls – 19 March 2025.
• Legislative changes:
  • Queensland – new Workers’ Compensation provisions commenced on 1 January 2025; some delayed.
  • Queensland – update of four codes of practice to reflect recent changes to the Electrical Safety Regulation 2013.
  • Western Australia: new regulations and code of practice related to transportation of ammonium nitrate.
  • Engineered stone ban – exemption (in some jurisdictions) related to reinstallation of
    stone benchtops, slabs and panels which have been removed to enable repairs, implemented in some jurisdictions.
• Safe Work Australia launches new tools for WHS data reporting.
• Publications of interest.
• Opportunities to engage in policy discussions that are not public comment processes, with a list of active discussions.