Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government believes that everyone who goes to work should return home safely to their family each and every day. The Commonwealth is working with states and territories to explore how the preventative focus of existing workplace health and safety laws can be strengthened to prevent injuries and, more importantly, deaths in the workplace. State and Commonwealth ministers will soon meet to consider all recommendations from the 2018 review of the model laws, including the recommendations to introduce a specific industrial manslaughter offence. To ensure consistency and harmonisation, this is the appropriate forum to determine any changes to the model workplace health and safety laws and not this motion today in the Senate.

Question agreed to.