Interpretive guidelines

Interpretive guidelines describe how the WHS regulator believes key concepts in the WHS Act will operate and provide an indication of how the laws will be enforced.

• The meaning of 'person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU)
• How to determine what is reasonably practicable to meet a health and safety duty
• Discriminatory, coercive and misleading conduct
• The health and safety duty of an officer
• Duty of persons conducting business or undertakings that provide services relating to work health and safety
• Incident notification
• Development and submission of a safety case
• Development and submission of a diving safety management system
• Development and submission of an onshore facility - drilling operations safety case
• Statement of Regulatory Intent: Implementation of work health and safety regulations relating to crystalline silica processes

WorkSafe policies

These policies support the Statement of Regulatory Intent and provide a framework for how decisions by the regulator and WorkSafe will be made.

• WorkSafe compliance and enforcement policy (www.wa.gov.au)
• WorkSafe prosecution policy (www.wa.gov.au)
• WHS undertakings policy (www.wa.gov.au)