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Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004

Victoria's principal workplace health and safety law. It places duties on employers, self-employed persons, officers, and those who manage or control workplaces, or who design, make or supply plant, substances and struct...
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Version as at 6 Aug 2025 Compiled version

Current Topics 10

Duties of employees

Oct 2026
Employees at work must take reasonable care for their own and others' health and safety and co-operate with their employer's OHS compliance...
Medium
1 citation

Duties of people who manage or control workplaces

Oct 2026
Anyone who manages or controls a workplace must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that it and its entry and exit are safe and wit...
Medium
1 citation

Duties of self-employed persons

Oct 2026
Self-employed persons must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that others are not exposed to health or safety risks from their und...
Medium
1 citation

Employer duties to people who are not employees

Oct 2026
Employers must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that non-employees are not exposed to health or safety risks from the employer's...
High
1 citation

Employer duty to consult employees

Oct 2026
Employers must, so far as is reasonably practicable, consult directly affected employees on hazards, risk controls, welfare facilities and O...
Medium
1 citation

Extended Duties to Labour Hire Workers — 2021 Amendment

Sep 2026
Host employers owe the same OHS Act duties to labour hire workers as to their own employees, following the 2021 amendment.
High
1 citation

Meaning of ensuring health and safety so far as reasonably practicable

Oct 2026
A duty to ensure health and safety so far as reasonably practicable means eliminating risks where reasonably practicable, otherwise reducing...
Low
1 citation

Offence of recklessly endangering people at workplaces

Oct 2026
Recklessly engaging in conduct that places someone at a workplace in danger of serious injury, without lawful excuse, is an indictable offen...
High
1 citation

Providing information to WorkSafe on written notice

Oct 2026
A person who receives a written notice from WorkSafe must give the information or produce the documents it requires to check compliance or i...
Low
1 citation

Undertakings accepted by WorkSafe for contraventions

Oct 2026
WorkSafe may accept a written undertaking about an actual or alleged contravention; the person giving it must not contravene it.
Medium
1 citation

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