• Legislation
  • Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
  • Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
  • The Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001 and Regulation 2011
  • Ministerial notices
  • Codes of practice
  • Boards of inquiry
  • Workplace consultation
  • Provisional improvement notice (PIN)
  • Regulation of the storage and handling of dangerous goods
  • Regulatory jurisdictions
  • Prescribed infringement notice
• Codes of practice
• Queensland's new work health and safety laws
• Prosecutions
• Enforceable undertakings
  • Enforceable undertakings list
  • Enforceable undertakings process
• Compliance and enforcement
  • Who enforces the law?
  • Compliance and enforcement policy
  • Memoranda of understanding
  • 2011 workplace interventions
  • Workplace intervention reports
• Penalties
  • What is a breach?
  • What is the maximum penalty?
  • Revoking of licences and registrations
• Inspections
  • WHSQ inspectors
  • Workplace inspections
  • Inspectors' powers
  • Inspector conduct
  • Enforcement options
  • Complaints about WHSQ inspectors
  • Investigations

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Who enforces the law

Inspectors from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland are appointed under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 kB) to enforce the law and its regulations.

Inspectors are based in 18 regional offices throughout Queensland.

They visit workplaces to:

• investigate workplace incidents
• investigate reports of unsafe or unhealthy conditions or dangerous work practices
• assess workplace health and safety risks to workers and members of the public
• provide information and advice on obligations under the Act.

Inspectors have the power to impose a range of enforcement strategies to encourage greater compliance of the legislative requirements.