Disclosure log

Safe Work Australia is required by the Freedom of Information Act 1982 to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists information which has been released in response to an FOI access request. This requirement has applied since 1 May 2011.

The disclosure log requirement does not apply to:

personal information about any person if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
information about the business, commercial, financial or professional affairs of any person if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
other information covered by a determination made by the Australian Information Commissioner if publication of that information would be ‘unreasonable’
any information if it is not reasonably practicable to publish the information because of the extent of modifications that would need to be made to delete the information listed in the above dot points.

The information described in the disclosure log table below has been released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and is available for public access.

FOI Reference number	Date information listed in disclosure log	Summary of FOI request received by Agency/Minister	Description of information released under this disclosure log (and whether released in full or part)	Date when information may be deleted from a website	Other information/file number
11-006	14 December 2011	Documents and information relating to: OHS in the freight, logistics and heavy haulage industries OHS in the warehousing and retail distribution industries the role of owner driver in the above industries, and the role of ‘chain or responsibility’ from consignors to drivers in OHS in the above industries.	Please refer to the attached table. Documents released by Safe Work Australia PDF 34kb DOC 12kb	N/A	SWA11/1063
12-002	19 March 2012	All documents in the possession of Safe Work Australia relating to the creation of the draft model Code of Practice ‘Preventing and Responding to Workplace Bullying.’	Please refer to the attached table. PDF 132kb DOCX 107kb	N/A
12-004	20 June 2012	Safe Work Australia's Evaluation Plan for the Harmonisation of Work Health and Safety in Australia	Document released in full PDF 349kb DOC 532kb	N/A
12-003	7 August 2012	Documents relating to the development of the model Code of Practice for Abrasive Blasting	Refer to the attached table. PDF 130kb DOC 70kb	N/A	SWA12/875
12-005	9 August 2012	Documents relating to case study 4, security guards fatally injured whilst working, in the NOHSC publication “Work related fatalities involving security guards in Australia, 1989-1992”	Refer to the attached table. PDF 27kb DOC 67kb	N/A	SWA12/1142
12-006	1 November 2012	Documents relating to the proposal to appoint a review to conduct research for the ‘Perceptions of the Implementation of WHS harmonisation.	Please refer to the attached table PDF 99kb DOCX 86kb	N/A	N/A
12-007	1 November 2012	A full breakdown of spending by outcome, sub-outcome and programme by the Agency for the present financial year and for forward estimates.	PDF 171kb DOCX 142kb	N/A	N/A
13-001	22 February 2013	Documents in relation to part 3.1 of the model Code of Practice Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work	Documents in relation to part 3.1 of the model Code of Practice Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at WorkPDF 71kb Documents in relation to part 3.1 of the model Code of Practice Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at WorkDOCX 68kb	N/A	N/A