• Workplace health and safety legislation
  • Amendments to workplace health and safety legislation
  • How the legislation works
  • Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
  • Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
  • Ministerial notices
  • Codes of Practice
  • Who enforces the law
  • Boards of inquiry
  • Workplace consultation
  • Regulatory impact statements
  • Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN)
• Inspections
  • Workplace incidents and inspections
  • Inspectors' powers
  • Enforcement options
  • Making a complaint
  • Investigations
• Prosecutions
  • Cause to prosecute
  • Defences
  • Appeals and internal review of decisions
  • Access to your information
  • Publishing policy
• Penalties
  • What is a breach?
  • What is the maximum penalty?
  • Fines
• Enforceable undertakings
  • Enforceable undertakings process

• Rights and obligations
• Risk management
• Workplace incidents and inspections

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Laws and prosecutions

Workplace health and safety legislation
How the legislation works, what you must do, the Workplace Health and Safety Act, regulations, codes of practice, ministerial notices, workplace consultation

Inspections
About workplace incidents, inspectors and inspections, investigations, enforcement framework, notices, seizures, appeals, complaints.

Prosecutions

Prosecutions under the workplace health and safety law
Access details of successful prosecutions under workplace health and safety law.

Prosecution process
Prosecution process, defences, appeals, freedom of information, publishing policy.

Penalties
Breaches of the Act, maximum penalties, fines, appeals, revoking licences and registrations.

Enforceable undertakings

Enforceable undertakings under the workplace health and safety law
An enforceable undertaking is one of the options available to the Department of Justice and Attorney-General to promote compliance with workplace health and safety laws.

An enforceable undertaking is a legal agreement which obliges an organisation to carry out specific activities to improve not only worker health and safety, but also deliver benefits to industry and the broader community. It is an alternative to court action for an alleged breach of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB)

Enforceable undertakings process
Definition, when can you apply, who decides if the application is successful

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