Amendments to workplace health and safety legislation
Amendment Acts, information about significant changes to the law
Submission to the National OHS review
Queensland calls for national OHS system for the modern world
How the legislation works
How the Act and the Regulation work together, what you must do
Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
About the Act, who is covered, what is not covered
Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
About the Regulation
Ministerial notices
What Ministerial notices are
Codes of practice
Helping manage exposure to risk, access to codes of practice
Who enforces the law
Inspectors, what they do, their powers
Boards of inquiry
Why they are established, what they do
Workplace consultation
Workplace Health and Safety Board, standing committees, WHSO's, WHSR's
Regulatory impact statements
What are regulatory impact statements, current regulatory impact statements
Provision Improvement Notice (PIN)
A PIN is a written direction from a workplace health and safety representative to an employer or employer representative requiring them to fix a workplace health and safety program
Legislation links:
Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB)
Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
For more information contact:
Queensland Government
Workplace Health and Safety Infoline 1300 369 915