This guide provides information on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to volunteers

Use this guide to manage health and safety risks associated with high pressure water jetting operations. 

This guide was developed and published prior to amendments to the model WHS Regulations in 2022. The guide is an archived document and is provided for background only.

Workplace bullying is a risk to health and safety. It can occur wherever people work together in all types of workplaces. It is best dealt with by taking steps to prevent it from occurring and responding quickly if it does occur.

This guide provides practical guidance for workers on how to manage fatigue to ensure it does not contribute to health and safety risks in the workplace.

This Guide provides practical guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking and other duty holders on how to manage fatigue to ensure it does not contribute to health and safety risks in the workplace. 

This document provides guidance on the standard of health and safety that a PCBU must meet under the WHS Act and Regulations. A PCBU must do what is ‘reasonably practicable’ to ensure health and safety. 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risks of demolition work.  

You should use this Code if you: 

This model Code of Practice provides practical guidance on managing electrical risks in the workplace. 

Use this guide if you: 

• manage or control electrical equipment 

Use this model Code of Practice if you design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace. This includes architects, building designers and engineers. 

This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals for persons conducting a business or undertaking who use chemicals in their workplace.

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on how to meet the standards of work health and safety (WHS) required under the WHS Act and Regulations in relation to construction work. 

In this model Code, the word:

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks of plant in the workplace.  

Use this Code if you: 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of falls in housing construction. 

In this model Code, the word:  

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on providing first aid in the workplace. 

It includes information on: 

• first aid kits 

• procedures 

• facilities 

This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of specific terms and concepts used in the provisions of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act to prohibit discriminatory, coercive or misleading conduct. 

The explanatory statement explains the intended operation of the current version of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations, dated 1 September 2024. 

This model Code of Practice guides you on how to correctly label hazardous chemicals used in the workplace.

Use this Code of Practice if you make, import, supply or use hazardous chemicals.

This model Code of Practice guides you on how to develop a safety data sheet for a hazar

This model Code of Practice sets out the legal duties for licensed and unlicensed asbestos removal. 

This Code is for people involved in asbestos removal at work, including at residential premises. It applies if you: 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on: 

This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction.

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of a falls by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury. 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on how to provide and maintain a physical work environment that is without risks to health and safety.  

It covers: 

If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), this model Code of Practice provides practical guidance on how to effectively consult with workers about work health and safety and meet your duties under the work health and safety (WHS) Act.  

This guide provides an overview of the structure of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations.

Safe Work Australia has developed transitional principles that set out how arrangements under existing work health and safety (WHS) legislation are intended to transition to the new system.

The National Compliance and Enforcement Policy (the Policy) supports harmonised WHS laws by seeking to ensure they are complemented by a nationally consistent approach to compliance and enforcement. The Policy seeks to ensure this by setting out principles which underpin how regulators

This Decision RIS provides a detailed analysis of the likely impact of implementing the proposed model Work Health Safety (WHS) Regulations and first stage Codes of Practice.

This is the current version of the model WHS Act, dated 24 November 2023, which includes all amendments made since 2011. For the model WHS Act to have effect in a jurisdiction it must be implemented in that jurisdiction.

This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the concept of a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ used in the

This is the current version of the model WHS Regulations, dated 1 September 2024, which includes all amendments made since 2011. For the model WHS Regulations to have effect in a jurisdiction it must be implemented in that jurisdiction.

The explanatory memorandum explains the intended operation of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act, including amendments to the Act up until 24 November 2023.

On 11 December 2009, the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council endorsed the Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Bill. The intention is that the Commonwealth and each state and territory government will enact a workplace health and safety Bill to commence on 1 January 2012.

In a key step toward making the harmonisation of OHS laws a reality, the National Review into Model OHS Laws (the Review) concluded in January 2009 with the provision of the Review panel's second and final report to the Workplace Relations Ministers' Council (WRMC).