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Workplace health and safety laws now apply to sex industry workers
Following the decriminalisation of sex work in Queensland, all sex workers and sex work businesses will be covered by work health and safety legislation. This improves sex workers’ rights, safety and working conditions.
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Media release
Compliance blitz targets construction industry
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) has begun a state-wide compliance blitz to reduce serious workplace incidents in Queensland’s high risk construction industry.
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Media release
Ban on engineered stone in effect (1 July 2024)
Following the agreement of a national ban of engineered stone in December 2023, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) advises the ban is now in effect (July 1, 2024).