Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking

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Reporting concerns and incidents

Notify the regulator of an incident or learn how to report unsafe work. Workplace hazards WorkSafe encourages a consultative process where workplace safety complaints are first reported within the workplace in an attempt to resolve them in-house. The Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act)...
Report an incident
01 Nov 2024

Have your say

We are committed to making workplaces safer and healthier for everyone. Your feedbacks help to effectivey shape policies, projects and services that meet the needs to all workers in Western Australia. By taking part in the consultation, you can help us understand what is working, where improvements...
Public consultations
29 Oct 2024

Managing bullying risks in the workplace

Everyone has a work health and safety duty, by working together you can help keep bullying from happening at work. If you are a PCBU, you must identify, assess, and control hazards in the workplace. The goal is to eliminate risks, and if that’s not possible, you must minimise risks as much as you...
Preventing workplace bullying
23 Oct 2024

Work health and safety duties

For businesses If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must protect workers from bullying, including managing risks and providing necessary information and support. If you manage or control a workplace, you are responsible for ensuring the physical and mental health and...
Preventing workplace bullying
23 Oct 2024

Dangerous goods safety codes of practice

Codes of practice are supplementary to requirements under the Acts and regulations. They are intended to supplement such requirements in a uniform way and, as far as possible, clarify any ambiguity or uncertainty in the Acts and regulations. Codes of practice also set out requirements and...
Codes of practice
22 Oct 2024

Dangerous goods safety and Petroleum and geothermal energy operations (PAGEO) reports

This section contains a list of health and safety project reports produces by WorkSafe and Dangerous goods safety. Ammonium nitrate emulsion (ANE) tanker trailer explosion: Incident investigation This report details the scientific investigation into the explosion of a tanker trailer and dolly...
Reports
21 Oct 2024

Mining and exploration reports

This section contains a list of health and safety project reports produced by WorkSafe Mines Safety. A study of Nano Diesel Particulate Matter (nDPM) behaviour and physico-chemical changes in underground hard rock mines of Western Australia This report assess the applicability of tracer gas...
Reports
21 Oct 2024

General industry reports

This section contains a list of health and safety project reports produced by WorkSafe. Agricultural industry fatality report : June 2023 This report provides valuable insight into the types and causes of work-related tarumatic injury fatalities within the agricultural industry. WorkSafe Western...
Reports
21 Oct 2024

Your rights and responsibilities

Everyone has a duty to take reasonable care for their health and safety at work and for others in the workplace. What a PCBU must do Under the Work and Health Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act), a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) , such as an employer, has a primary duty of care to workers...
ThinkSafe. WorkSafe
18 Oct 2024

Supporting workers

Inductions Inductions are an important information sharing session that helps to familiarise people with the locations, equipment, materials, processes and tasks they may encounter while working at or visiting a site for the first time. For more information visit the Effective inductions webpage...
ThinkSafe. WorkSafe
18 Oct 2024

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Publications

Application to request assessment arrangement for a statutory examination (non-diagnosed conditions)

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If you have personal circumstances that may impact your participation in the mines statutory positions examinations, you can apply for an assessment arrangement. These arrangements are designed to...
WorkSafe
Form – application
01 Nov 2024

Carmel explosions report

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This report summarises the findings of the accident investigation into fires and explosions at the fireworks storage facility located at Camel, Western Australia on 6 March 2002. The objective of the...
WorkSafe
Reports
22 Oct 2024

Consumer Protection Year in Review 2023-24

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Consumer Protection's Year in Review 2023-24 outlines the major achievements from the financial year.
CP Year in review 2023-24 - cover
CP Year in review 2023-24 - cover, by Consumer Protection
“Consumer Protection has had another busy year with plenty...
Consumer Protection
Reports
21 Oct 2024

Stay clear, stay safe – Cutting trees near powerlines can be deadly and dangerous

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To help maintain an acceptable level of safety and reduce the possibility of incidents, Building and Energy has developed a n ew fact sheet for vegetation control and saftey near powerlines. Any...
Building and Energy
Fact sheet
12 Sep 2024

Crystalline silica substances regulations: Information sheet

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Amendments to the Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WHS General Regulations) commenced operation 1 September 2024. Additional requirements are now in place for processing ‘...
WorkSafe
Information
02 Sep 2024

Working with crystalline silica substances: Guide

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This guide will help a PCBU understand the additional work health and safety (WHS) requirements in relation to processing a CSS, from 1 September 2024, to protect workers and others at the workplace...
WorkSafe
Guide / handbook
02 Sep 2024

Respirable crystalline silica air monitoring notification form

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From 1 September 2024, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who carries out high-risk processing of crystalline silica substances needs to undertake air monitoring for respirable...
WorkSafe
Form – notification
01 Nov 2024

Significant Incident Summary No. 7 : Working safely around agricultural equipment - Hobbs Hoist fatal incident

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Farming equipment used to lift, transfer and support bins and crates on and off a truck bed is commonly known as a Hobbs Hoist. A farmer was fatally injured when a Hobbs Hoist supporting a seeder bin...
WorkSafe
Alert
23 Jul 2024

Notification form for permitted work with legacy engineered stone

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From 1 July 2024, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must notify the WorkSafe Commissioner of their intention to carry out any work involving the processing of legacy engineered...
WorkSafe
Form – notification
06 Sep 2024

Human factors in the HAZOP process : Information sheet

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This information sheet provides information on human factors for operators to consider in their hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) processes. HAZOP is a widely used and comprehensive method for...
WorkSafe
Information
25 Jun 2024

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Announcements

WorkSafe investigates fall death at Malaga

WorkSafe is investigating the work-related death of a 71-year-old roof plumber at Malaga yesterday. The man was reported to have been working on the roof of a vacant factory unit when he fell approximately five metres through the metal roof. WorkSafe investigators examine the circumstances of incidents with a view to ensuring compliance and preventing future incidents of a similar nature...
WorkSafe
Media release
23 Oct 2024

WorkSafe commences prosecutions over two mining fatalities

WorkSafe has initiated the first three prosecutions for two fatalities involving mining companies under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 , which came into effect in March 2022. In the first two prosecutions, mine contractor MACA Mining Pty Ltd and mine operator Greenmount Resources Pty Ltd have been charged with failing to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of...
WorkSafe
Media release
22 Oct 2024

Preserving the site of a notifiable incident

The WorkSafe Mines Safety inspectorate has identified a concerning number of notifiable incidents where the site has not been preserved as required by the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 section 39(1). What is a notifiable incident? A 'notifiable incident' is: the death of a person, a serious injury or illness , or a dangerous incident . arising out of the conduct of a business or undertaking at...
WorkSafe
Department News
02 Jan 2024

Gas safety alert for restaurant tabletop cooking

Explosion and injury risks from portable gas appliances with butane canisters Banned in restaurants, including tabletop cooking, and indoors All portable gas cooking appliances must be approved for use in Western Australia Diners and restaurant owners are reminded that portable gas appliances powered by butane canisters cannot be used for commercial purposes, such as tabletop cooking experiences...
Building and Energy
Media release
11 Oct 2023

High-voltage guide to empower facility owners

Updated guidance on management of high-voltage electrical installations Publication issued by Building & Energy and endorsed by WorkSafe Revised version aligns with current regulations including new WHS Act Owners and managers of premises with high-voltage electrical installations can now access updated guidance from WA’s energy and workplace safety regulators. Facilities such as large...
Building and Energy
Media release
24 Apr 2023

Incident notification

Businesses and undertakings must notify the regulator of certain incidents that arise out of the conduct of a business or undertaking at a workplace. The Interpretive guidelines - Incident notification will help you decide when and how to notify a work-related death, injury, illness or dangerous incident (further notification requirements apply to mines and petroleum and geothermal operations –...
WorkSafe
Alert
28 Feb 2023

Regulations on psychosocial hazards

Work health and safety regulations for the control of psychosocial risks will come into effect on 24 December 2022. These regulations will require a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) to eliminate psychosocial risks, or to minimise them so far as is reasonably practicable. This new duty places psychosocial hazards on the same footing as other significant hazards such as falls or...
WorkSafe
Department News
23 Dec 2022

Digital Identity and WARAM Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) available

Two new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) sheets are now available. The new FAQs cover digital identity and the WA Relationship Authorisation Manager (WARAM). The My Account FAQ has also been updated. The FAQs provide answers to common questions such as: What is a digital identity and why we need to protect it? What is the WARAM and how can it benefit our customers and their business ? Both new...
Corporate
Department News
29 Sep 2022

Work health and safety: Translated information

The department has released a series of translated information on the WHS laws to assist vulnerable worker groups, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations. These information sheets are based on the WHS interpretative guidelines, the information sheets contain simplified wording providing people with guidance on the key concepts they need to understand, with hyperlinks...
WorkSafe
Department News
20 Jul 2022
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