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Related links - Agencies outside Queensland regulating hazardous materials

Australia

• ACT WorkCover is a Territory Government agency, which regulates dangerous substances.
• Australia's National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme – NICNAS - in the Office of Chemical Safety, is the regulator for industrial chemicals under the Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Act within the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging.
• Comcare is responsible for workplace safety, rehabilitation and compensation in the Commonwealth jurisdiction.
• Major Hazard Facilities and Dangerous Goods are regulated through the Resource Safety Division of the Department of Mines and Petroleum.
• The National Transport Commission (NTC) publishes the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods through the Australian Dangerous Goods Code.
• NT WorkSafe is responsible for administering a variety of legislation throughout the Northern Territory.
• Tasmania Workcover
• The WorkCover Corporation of South Australia is responsible for the administration of the WorkCover scheme in South Australia. The Worker's Compensation and Rehabilitation Act was established in 1986.
• WorkCover NSW administers and enforces compliance with occupational health and safety (OHS), including major hazard facilities and dangerous goods.
• WorkSafe Victoria administers legislation that provides for the control of major hazard facilities (MHFs), and dangerous goods
• WorkSafe Western Australia, a Division of the Department of Commerce, WA, is responsible for the administration of work safety and health laws. WorkSafe undertakes a wide range of regulatory activities through the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 and the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 1996.

International

• International Air Transport Association - Dangerous Goods Regulations relating to air transport.
• The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is the United Nations Specialised Agency responsible for improving maritime safety and prevention of pollution by ships. It publishes techical guidelines and standards for shipping such as the International Marine Dangerous Goods Code, which contains the IMO recommendations for the carriage of dangerous goods by sea.
• UNECE Globally Harmonised System for the Classification and Labeling of Chemicals.