Safe Work Australia aims to deal with complaints in a fair, equitable and non-discriminatory way.
You can submit a complaint if you are unhappy with the way we have conducted a procurement or believe that we have breached the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs).
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The SWA 2025 Census Highlights Report is now available. This year SWA had an agency response rate of 90 per cent, which is a positive result and indicates a highly engaged workforce. SWA gains insights from the census results and is committed to taking action to embed in our working environment.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 12-002.
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This document is an indexed list of Safe Work Australia’s files from 1 July 2019 to 30 December 2019.
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The Audit Committee Charter sets out the role and responsibilities of the Committee, including its objective, authority, membership, functions, reporting and administrative arrangements.
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The Commonwealth of Australia owns the copyright in this website (www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au) and all material on this website that is crea
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Collecting personal information
We collect personal information like:
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We are required under section 11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to publish a disclosure log on our website. The disclosure log lists information which has been released in response to an FOI access request.
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The order requires the indexed list of files be published to the internet, so they are accessible to the public and can assist with Freedom of Information requests.
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Senate Order
An amendment to the Senate Order of 14 May 2015 requires all procurement contracts be listed in a report on the AusTender website, with non-procurement contracts to be listed on entity websites.
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The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (the PID Act) promotes accountability and integrity in the Commonwealth public sector, by:
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), you may access copies of documents held by the Australian Government and its agencies, unless the
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Safe Work Australia Corporate Plan 2025–2029
Safe Work Australia was established under the Safe Work Australia Act 2008 (Cth) (the SWA Act) and, as a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity, operates in accordance with the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
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Safe Work Australia 2025–26 Operational Plan
Legislative context
Safe Work Australia was established under the Safe Work Australia Act 2008 (Cth) (the SWA Act).
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The Safe Work Australia annual report is published to inform Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements across Australia.
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Annual report
The Safe Work Australia Annual Report is published to inform Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements across Australia.
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Safe Work Australia Corporate Plan 2024–2028
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On Thursday 15 October 2020, Safe Work Australia's eleventh annual report was tabled in the Australian Parliament.
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This document is an indexed list of Safe Work Australia's files from 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our Ref: 20-001
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Statistics from 2000–01 to 2016–17 for each state or territory.
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This document is an indexed list of Safe Work Australia's files from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019.
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Category 4 documents released under FOI request: 19-006.
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Schedule of documents released under FOI request: 19-005.
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The Safe Work Australia Operational Plan describes the activities to be undertaken in performing our statutory functions during 2025-2026.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 18-007.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 18-005.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 17-004.
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This guide explains how progress on the outcome reduced incidence of work-related death, injury and illness will be measured for the
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Agencies subject to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make publicly available records of the legal services expenditure each year.
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Safe Work Australia is subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 1982 and is required to have an information publication scheme agency plan under s 8(1) of the FOI Act.
The plan:
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 12-003.
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Table of documents released by Save Work Australia under Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 12-005.
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Table of documents released by Safe Work Australia under the Freedom of Information Act. Our ref: 13-006.
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