• Work health and safety laws
  • Overview of the legislation
  • Definitions
  • Duties under the legislation
  • Due diligence
  • Transitional provisions
  • Consultation and representation
  • Exemptions to the regulation
  • What things don’t apply anymore
  • Penalities
  • Resources
  • Provisional Improvement Notices (PINs)
• Codes of practice
• Compliance and enforcement
  • Inspectors, entry powers and conduct
  • Workplace inspections
  • Enforcement options
  • Requesting assistance from an inspector
  • Review of decisions
  • Memoranda of understanding
• Workplace interventions and audits
  • All industry interventions
  • Agriculture
  • Construction
    • Manual handling of plasterboard campaign
    • Control of major risks on civil construction sites
    • Concrete pumping compliance campaign 2012
    • Worker safety on or near public roads national campaign 2011
    • Scaffolding campaign 2009 - 2010
    • Building the Education Revolution (BER)
    • Concrete slump project report
    • National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (NPARIH)
    • Workplace health and safety taskforce
    • Mobile and operational plant in construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Transport and storage
  • Other industry
  • Auditing
• Prosecutions
  • Court summary list
  • Court summary search
  • Prosecution guidelines
  • Request that the regulator commences a prosecution
  • Cause to prosecute
  • Access to your information
  • Publishing policy
• Enforceable undertakings
  • Enforceable undertakings list
  • Enforceable undertakings process
  • Expected timeframes for decision

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Work health and safety laws

Overview of the legislation
Overview of the Work Health and Safety Act, Safety in Recreational Water Activities Act, Regulations and codes of practice.

Exemptions to the regulation
The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (WHS Regulation) allows the regulator to grant an exemption from compliance with any provision of the WHS Regulation.

Definitions
Definitions under the work health and safety laws.

Duties
Duties under the work health and safety laws.

Due diligence
The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the WHS Act 2011) imposes a specific duty on officers of corporations and unincorporated bodies.

Transitional provisions
Transitional provisions are included to smooth the transition to the new requirements which will require some action by business operators in order to comply.

Things that don't apply anymore
Information about what no longer applies under the work health and safety laws.

Consultation and representation
Representation and participation, workgroups and health and safety representatives.

General workplace management
Managing risks, general workplace management, training, information and instruction, general working environment, first aid, emergency plans, personal protective equipment, remote and isolated work, managing risk from contaminants, hazardous atmospheres, storage and ignition sources and falling objects.

Penalties
What are the penalties if you are in breach of the work health and safety laws?

Resources
Information and guidance materials about the work health and safety laws.