Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12

Message from the Minister
The Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004¿12 is part of the Government's commitment to reducing the human and financial cost of work-related injury and illness. Each year in Queensland, work-related injury and illness is estimated to cost the community more than $5 billion and claim around 100 lives.

Statement of commitment
As key parties to the improvement of workplace health and safety in Queensland, we have accepted responsibility for the development and implementation of the Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12.

Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12
The long-term vision for Queensland is workplaces free from death, injury and disease. The Queensland strategy has set targets as a step towards achieving its vision of Queensland workplaces free from death, injury and disease.

Queensland Workplace Health and Safety
Under the Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 and the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 anyone whose actions could affect the health and safety of others has an obligation.

Implementation of the Strategy
The Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Strategy 2004-12 will be implemented through the workplans of the following groups Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

The Challenge
The Queensland strategy identifies nine areas where action is required to underpin improvements in each of the five Queensland priorities and in workplace health and safety.