This Code of Practice provides practical advice for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and other duty holders on managing risks associated with stevedoring. It applies to all workplaces where stevedoring operations are carried out.

This guide provides information for anyone operating a business or undertaking on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to organisations that engage

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

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 risks associated with excavation work. 

This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including: 

This model Code of Practice guides you on managing risks with spray painting and powder coating. 

Use this Code of Practice if you have any spray painting or powder coating processes at your workplace. 

This model Code of Practice guides you on managing risks with abrasive blasting.

Use this Code of Practice if you have any abrasive blasting processes at your workplace.

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: 

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. 

Use this model Code of Practice to protect workers from the effects of noise at work.

If you have a noisy workplace, this document guides you on:

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: 

This model Code of Practice sets out the requirements for how to manage and control asbestos in all workplaces, including when working in residential premises.

This Code is for:

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 5 December 2025, 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

The model Work Health and Safety Regulations 2025 include amendments to the model WHS Regulations to clarify requirements, remove duplication, improve crane licensing requirements and better align the regulations with current practice.

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).

This presentation covers what work health and safety is, who is covered by the laws, what you need to know and do, information on volunteer officers, consulting with volunteers, what to do if something happens and where to go for more information.