Learn how to identify hazards, manage risks and protect your workers from injury and illness. Everything you need to know about claims and insurance for work-related injuries, with WorkCover or a self-insured business. Understand the work health and safety laws that apply to every place of work in Queensland.

We’re Queensland’s work health and safety regulator, part of the Office of Industrial Relations. Our purpose is to improve work health and safety and reduce the risk of work-related fatalities, injuries and diseases.

Work health and safety laws aim to protect the health, safety and welfare of all workers at work. The laws also protect the health and safety of all other people who might be affected by the work. Queensland's work health and safety legal framework includes: codes of practice.

The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) sets out the requirements for healthy and safe workplaces. It outlines what you must do to protect the health, safety and welfare of your workers and other people who might be affected by the work your business does.

This office enforces work health and safety laws, investigates workplace fatalities, serious injuries, prosecutes breaches of legislation and educates employees and employers on their legal obligations. Learn more at worksafe.qld.gov.au.

2024年5月30日 · Under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 you must assess risks and implement and review control measures to prevent or minimise exposure to these risks. To properly manage exposure to risks, you must: review the controls regularly. This guide introduces you to work health and safety laws and their application.

2024年12月24日 · A code of practice provides practical guidance for your business on how to achieve health and safety standards required under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act). A code of practice also has effective ways to identify and manage risks.

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Work health and safety covers topics like: manual or repetitive tasks; safety while working with machinery, or working at heights; working with hazardous substances; and; occupational stress. Check the WorkSafe website for information from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) about work health and safety laws and useful safety guides ...

Workers have legal responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. You must: take reasonable care for your health and safety in the workplace; take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may be affected by what you do or don’t do; follow any reasonable health and safety instructions from your employer.