Work Health and Safety Act 2011

Designers, Manufacturers, Importers and Suppliers Must Give Safety Information on Request

Oct 2026

Businesses that design, manufacture, import or supply plant, substances or structures must, on request, give current relevant safety informa...

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Duty to Consult Workers on Health and Safety Matters

Oct 2026

Part 5 requires PCBUs to consult other duty-holders (s 46) and, so far as is reasonably practicable, workers directly affected by work healt...

Medium

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Each Duty Holder Keeps Responsibility When Duties Are Shared

Oct 2026

Where several people hold a duty for the same matter, each keeps responsibility for their own duty and must discharge it to the extent they...

Medium

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Health and Safety Representatives – Election, Powers and Protections

Oct 2026

Part 5 provides for electing health and safety representatives for work groups, their powers, PCBU obligations and health and safety committ...

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Incident Notification – Notifiable Incidents, Deaths, Serious Injuries

Oct 2026

Part 3 defines notifiable incidents and imposes duties to notify them and to preserve incident sites and evidence.

Medium

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Inspector Powers – Improvement, Prohibition and Non-Disturbance Notices

Oct 2026

Part 10 empowers inspectors to issue improvement, prohibition and non-disturbance notices, which must be in writing.

Medium

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Primary Duty of Care – Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU)

Oct 2026

Section 19 requires a PCBU to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of its workers and that other persons are n...

High

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Resolving Work Health and Safety Issues at the Workplace

Oct 2026

Parties to a health and safety issue must make reasonable efforts to settle it promptly and effectively using the agreed procedure, or the r...

Medium

1 citation