• 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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Resources about the work health and safety laws

Facts sheets

• Guide to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (PDF, 762 kB)
• Rural guide to the WHS laws (PDF, 622 kB)
• Apartment owner occupiers and bodies corporate (PDF, 104 kB)
• Public events (PDF, 106 kB)
• School parents and citizens associations (PDF, 101 kB)
• Residential premises (PDF, 111 kB)
• Forklift licensing in the rural industry (PDF, 334 kB)

Legislative guides

• Legislative guide - demolition work licences (LG-DW1) (PDF, 66 kB)
• Legislative guide - designer written report for a structure (LG-DR1) (PDF, 75 kB)
• Legislative guide - working at heights in construction (LG-C1) (PDF, 69 kB)

Films

• Executive officers: Know your responsibilities under the new laws

Presentations

• Working at heights in the construction industry (PDF, 719 kB)