Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking

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Workers have health and safety obligations and play an important role in helping to keep a workplace healthy and safe. A worker is any person who carries out work for a person conducting a business or undertaking ( PCBU ) under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act). This includes: an...
Main responsibilities and duties under WHS
The WHS Act and accompanying regulations came into effect on 31 March 2022. Download the Act Download the regulations This information is designed to help WA organisations and their associated workforces (including volunteers) understand the new Work Health and Safety laws. Short video animations...
Main responsibilities and duties under WHS
This information is designed to help WA organisations and their associated workforces (including volunteers) understand the Work Health and Safety laws. How does the WHS Act describe volunteers and volunteer organisations? The WHS Act describes a volunteer as a person who acts on a voluntary basis...
Main responsibilities and duties under WHS
This information is designed to help WA organisations and their associated workforces (including volunteers) understand the new Work Health and Safety laws. Who is an officer under WHS? The role and influence a person has in a business determines if they are an officer under the WHS Act. Broadly,...
Main responsibilities and duties under WHS
The WorkSafe Commissioner is the ‘regulator’ under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (the WHS Act). WorkSafe assists the regulator in the administration of the WHS Act. This includes the provision of inspectors and staff to secure compliance with the legislation. WorkSafe has teams of inspectors...
Workplace inspections
This information is designed to help WA organisations and their associated workforces (including volunteers) understand the work health and safety laws. Amendments to Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WHS General Regulations) and Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 (WHS...
Work health and safety laws
This information is designed to help WA organisations and their associated workforces (including volunteers) understand the Work Health and Safety laws. The WHS Act and accompanying regulations came into effect on 31 March 2022. Download the Act Download the Regulations WHS publications and...
Work health and safety laws
The regulator can grant a group of people an exemption from complying with a regulation of the Work Health and Safety Regulations. These are referred to as a class exemptions. It is important to read class exemptions closely to see if they apply to you, and if you cannot meet all of the conditions...
Class exemptions
This guidance is intended to assist local government authorities and amusement device owners/operators in Western Australia understand their duties under Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws with respect to amusement devices. The Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act) and Work Health and Safety (...
Plant and machinery
The Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards were held at the State Reception Centre on 28 October 2022. These award recognise outstanding solutions and innovations to specific workplace health and safety problems in Western Australia. This year 71 submissions were received with 36 companies...
Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards

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This Code provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace. This...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
15 Jul 2022
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with spray painting and powder coating.
WorkSafe
Code of practice
03 Nov 2022
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to label hazardous chemicals that are being manufactured or imported for use, handling or storage in Australia.
WorkSafe
Code of practice
15 Jul 2022
Engineered stone ban From 1 July 2024 the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone slabs, panels and benchtops of engineered stone is banned in Western Australia. This Code remains available...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
10 Jul 2024
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with managing risks of plant in the workplace.
WorkSafe
Code of practice
01 Mar 2024
This code of practice provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to manage health and safety risks associated with removing asbestos or asbestos containing materials (ACM) from workplaces. A PCBU...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
05 Nov 2024
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage risks associated with asbestos, asbestos containing material (ACM) and asbestos-contaminated dust or debris (ACD) at the workplace...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
05 Nov 2024
This code of practice provides practical guidance for those who design, construct, import, supply or install plant or structures, on how to eliminate, or if that is not possible, minimise the risk of...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
13 May 2023
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to eliminate, or if that is not possible, minimise the risk of falls from height in housing construction. This code of practice should be read...
WorkSafe
Code of practice
18 Jul 2022
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals used in the workplace.
WorkSafe
Code of practice
15 Jul 2022

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