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This case study illustrates 4 key WHS principles that apply to all WHS duties in the model WHS Act and the duty to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other duty holders. Download the case study to learn how the principles apply to labour hire.

Safe Work Australia has updated the model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace to include guidance on vehicle roll-aways and safe immobilis

Safe Work Australia has published a model Code of Practice: Sexual and gender-based harassment.

This case study illustrates 4 key principles that apply to all WHS duties in the model WHS Act and the duty to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other duty holders. Download the case study to learn how the principles apply in the construction industry.

This Explanatory Memorandum accompanies the

The Model Work Health and Safety Legislation Amendment (Gross Negligence Offences) 2023 includes amendments to the model WHS Act including: 

The model laws are amended from time to time. Amendments to the model laws do not automatically apply in a jurisdiction.

This case study illustrates four key WHS principles that apply to all WHS duties in the model WHS Act and the duty to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other duty holders. Download the case study to learn how Anton applies the principles in the outsourcing industry.

This case study illustrates four key WHS principles that apply to all WHS duties in the model WHS Act and the duty to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other duty holders. Download the case study to learn how Muhammad applies the principles in the franchising industry.

This Explanatory Memorandum accompanies the Model Work Health and Safety Legislation Amendment (Offences and Penalties) 2023.

The Model Work Health and Safety Legislation Amendment (Offences and Penalties) 2023 includes amendments to the model WHS Act and model WHS Regulations including: 

GHS 7 is now the only system to classify newly manufactured and imported hazardous chemicals and prepare their labels and safety data sheets (SDS) across Australia.

Safe Work Australia has published a model Code of Practice for tower cranes.

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The maximum monetary penalties comparison table summarises a sample of monetary penalties from the model WHS Act and the jurisdictions that have adopted the model WHS Act. It also includes a table summarising equivalent penalties in Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (2004).

The Model WHS Act prescribes a maximum monetary amount known as a penalty for breaches of offences under the Act.

Under WHS laws, PCBUs must eliminate or minimise psychosocial risks so far as is reasonably practicable.

Everyone in the workplace has a work health and safety (WHS) duty.

The primary duty of care in the model WHS Act requires a PCBU to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, workers and other persons are not exposed to risks to their psychological or physical health and safety.

This page provides persons conducting a business or undertaking with information on Japanese encephalitis and their duties under the model WHS laws.

This fact sheet provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) who are working as part of a contractual chain. 

This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the term ‘reasonably practicable’ in considering the standard of health and safety that a person conducting a business or undertaking (the duty-holder) is expected to meet under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and Regul

The framework guides the granting, refusal, amendment or cancellation of an exemption by each state, territory and the Commonwealth work health and safety regulator. The package contains:

The principles are part of the National Exemption Framework document package and have been developed to help guide the exemption decision making process. Exemptions must be granted only in the manner as set out in the WHS legislation and can only be made by state and territory WHS regulators.

This guide is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and explains the powers to grant exemptions from the requirements of the WHS Regulations. This guide should be read in conjunction with material provided by your state or territory WHS regulator.

This template is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document sent to applicants once the work health and safety regulator has made a decision about an exemption application.

This example application is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document which must be completed prior to lodgement of an exemption application to your jurisdictional work health and safety regulator.

In May 2021, Ministers responsible for work health and safety (WHS) from the Commonwealth and each state and territory considered the response to the Review of the model WHS laws in the Decision Regulatory Impact Statement.

Officers have a work health and safety duty under work health and safety laws. This video features workers from a range of industries talking about how they meet their officer duty.

This information sheet explains the difference between model codes of practice and other types of guidance material and outlines the development processes. 

If you are involved in managing a small to medium business then you are likely to have a duty as an ‘officer’ under work health and safety laws. This video features workers from a range of industries talking about why they are an officer in their business.

Everyone in the workplace has WHS duties under the model WHS Act. &nbsp

This consumer safety standard aims to improve quad bike safety and prevent injuries and deaths. It applies to all new and imported second-hand quad bikes at the point of sale. 

Everyone has a role in managing psychosocial risks. These duties are set out in the model WHS Act and model WHS Regulations.

EWPs can cause serious injury. Following your work health and safety (WHS) duties will help you keep workers and other people safe. 

If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have a duty to manage risks in the workplace. Identifying hazards in your workplace is the first step in managing risk. 

Resources about working in accommodation services. 

There can be significant health and safety risks in the accommodation industry. 

Accommodation services may include: 

• hotels and motels 

• caravan and camping grounds 

Regulators monitor and enforce WHS laws in the Commonwealth, states and territories.

If a regulator or their inspector attends your workplace and asks you to produce documents, information or answer questions, you must comply.

If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must protect anyone that works with, or could be exposed to, asbestos. 

If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must manage the health and safety risks of bullying at your workplace. 

Regulators monitor and enforce WHS laws in the Commonwealth, states and territories.

If a regulator or their inspector attends your workplace and asks you to produce documents, information or answer questions, you must comply.

Regulators monitor and enforce WHS laws in your state, territory or the Commonwealth, depending on where you work.

Their inspectors visit workplaces to:

WHS regulators promote and encourage WHS compliance through a range of methods. They can also direct compliance by compelling a duty holder to remedy any identified breach or sanction a contravening duty holder.