• Legislation
  • How the legislation works
  • Amendments to workplace health and safety legislation
  • Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
  • Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
  • Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001
  • Dangerous Goods Safety Management Regulation 2001
  • Ministerial notices
  • Codes of practice
  • Boards of inquiry
  • Workplace consultation
  • Regulatory impact statements
  • Provisional improvement notice (PIN)
  • Regulation of the storage and handling of dangerous goods
  • Regulatory jurisdictions
  • Prescribed infringement notice
• Harmonisation of OHS laws
• Prosecutions
  • Prosecutions list
  • Cause to prosecute
  • Defences
  • Appeals and internal review of decisions
  • Access to your information
  • Publishing policy
• Enforceable undertakings
  • Enforceable undertakings list
  • Enforceable undertakings process
• Compliance and enforcement
  • Who enforces the law?
  • Workplace audits
  • Compliance and enforcement policy
• Penalties
  • What is a breach?
  • What is the maximum penalty?
  • Fines
• Inspections
  • WHSQ inspectors
  • Workplace inspections
  • Inspectors' powers
  • Inspector conduct
  • Enforcement options
  • Complaints about WHSQ inspectors
  • Investigations

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

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Laws and prosecutions

Legislation
The Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB) and the Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001 (PDF, 638KB) sets out the laws about the health and safety requirements affecting most workplaces, work activities and specified high risk plant in Queensland.

Harmonisation of OHS laws
Information about the national occupational health and safety model laws being developed across Australia.

Prosecutions
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland actively enforces the law, prosecuting alleged offenders under the prosecutions framework.

Enforceable undertakings
An enforceable undertaking is one of the options available to promote compliance with workplace health and safety laws. It is an alternative to court action for an alleged breach of the Act.

Compliance and enforcement
When people fail to meet their obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 and the Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001, inspectors may use a range of compliance and enforcement measures.

Penalties
Outlines what a breach is and a schedule of maximum penalty amounts and fines.

Inspections
The Department is empowered under the law to respond to health and safety incidents at workplaces and inspect workplaces to monitor and enforce compliance with the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 and the Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001.