• 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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Prosecutions

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

Prosecution list
View summaries of workplace prosecutions in a given financial year.

Cause to prosecute
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland actively draws public attention to individuals and organisations it successfully prosecutes.

Defences
Following a regulation or code of practice will provide you with a defence in a prosecution for a breach of an obligation.

Appeals and internal review of decisions
If your interests are affected by a decision of an inspector (including the issue of statutory notices) you can apply to the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations for the decision to be reviewed internally.

Access to your information
Some information you may want for your case may be available under Workplace Health and Safety Queensland's administrative release of information policy.

Publishing policy
This policy details the Departments' approach to publishing information arising from workplace health and safety, electrical safety and industrial relations investigation and enforcement activities, in particular prosecutions and enforceable undertakings.