Browsing: WHS legislation, regulations, standards and codes (QLD)


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WHS amendments introduced, as every targeted PCBU fails WHS compliance test

Provisions for health and safety representatives and entry rights could be amended by a new Queensland WHS Bill, while a WHS blitz has found that every targeted business in one industry was breaching its health and safety obligations.


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3:54PM

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2:26PM

SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit; and much more

  • SWA agrees to push for low exposure limit for common carcinogen;
  • SWA makes hundreds of changes to chemical info system;
  • WHS guides for pre-2004 buildings and roll-aways released; and
  • Dreamworld-inspired WHS Code made in Qld.

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Major WHS amendments coming, new Code commences

PCBUs will soon be: required to proactively facilitate the election of health and safety representatives; banned from blocking WHS entry permit holders through technicalities or impractical induction requirements; and handed on-the-spot fines for failing to provide adequate toilets, under review recommendations accepted in Queensland.



MON
1:38PM

New safety Codes and laws commence in three regions

A range of WHS Codes and amendments, covering psychosocial hazards and other issues, have taken effect in two jurisdictions, while certain WHS exemptions have been reapplied in one of them, and duty holders in a third jurisdiction have been warned that driver-distraction cameras have been "switched on".


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