One programme, the jurisdictions you choose
A WHS programme names the jurisdictions it covers. Each brings its own sections and effective dates, and a duty a jurisdiction doesn't have is shown as absent there.
Frameworks · WHS
Work health and safety duties for every state and territory, and Victoria's OHS Act.
Each jurisdiction's duties, regulator and notification rules, from its own legislation. Choose the states and territories you work in; there is no default.
The framework
| Name | Work health and safety laws |
|---|---|
| Who it applies to | Every person conducting a business or undertaking (including self-employed people), its officers, its workers and other people at a workplace: each has its own duties under work health and safety law. Part 2 Divisions 2–4 (ss 19, 27, 28, 29), Compilation No. 16 (compilation date 1 July 2024, current on 2026-11-10), read 10 November 2026 |
| Jurisdictions | Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory; each with its own regulator and sections. |
What a WHS programme does
Incidents with the facts beside them
Record an incident and see the jurisdiction's notification and site-preservation duties with their sections. Your people decide what to notify, and lodge it.
Safety records that stay current
Link training, inspections, consultation and registers to each duty, with scheduled re-checks and stale-evidence alerts.
Duties across the jurisdictions
Each jurisdiction's programme maps these duties to its own sections, shows a duty it doesn't have as absent, and adds duties found only there.
Duties of care
- Primary duty of care
- Officers' due diligence
- Workers' duties
- Duties of other persons at the workplace
- Industrial manslaughter
Consultation, representation and issue resolution
- Consultation, cooperation and coordination between duty holders
- Consultation with workers
- Health and safety representatives and work groups
- Health and safety committees
- Issue resolution
Notifiable incidents
- Notifiable incidents
- Notify the regulator of a notifiable incident
- Preserve the incident site
- Keep records of notifiable incidents
Managing risks
- Managing risks to health and safety
- Managing psychosocial risks
Workplace arrangements, information and training
- Information, training and instruction
- General construction induction training
- First aid
- Emergency plans
Specific hazards and high risk work
- Hazardous chemicals register
- High risk work licences
- Safe work method statements for high risk construction work
- Asbestos register
| Jurisdiction | Law | Regulator |
|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth | Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth); Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth) | Comcare |
| New South Wales | Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW); Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW) | SafeWork NSW (the SafeWork Commissioner) |
| Victoria | Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (No. 107 of 2004); Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (S.R. No. 22/2017); Occupational Health and Safety (Psychological Health) Regulations 2025 (S.R. No. 103/2025) | WorkSafe Victoria |
| Queensland | Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld); Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld) | Workplace Health and Safety Queensland |
| Western Australia | Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (No. 36 of 2020); Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 | WorkSafe Commissioner |
| South Australia | Work Health and Safety Act 2012; Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 | SafeWork SA |
| Tasmania | Work Health and Safety Act 2012; Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022 | WorkSafe Tasmania |
| Australian Capital Territory | Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (ACT); Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (ACT) | WorkSafe ACT (the Work Health and Safety Commissioner) |
| Northern Territory | Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT); Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 (NT) | NT WorkSafe |
Other frameworks
Facts are as shipped in made. Shield, read from each primary source on the date shown. They describe the law; they aren't legal advice, and your organisation decides how they apply to it.