Maintaining a safe workplace is everyone’s responsibility. This section offers information and tools to help you manage risks and protect health, safety and wellbeing.
Everything you need to know about worker’s compensation insurance, whether you’re an employer needing to insure your workers or a worker who’s been injured at work.
Your rehabilitation and return to work journey will be easier if you know your options, the steps to take, and who’s responsible for what.
Information about work health and safety and electrical licensing, registration and training.
Learn about the Acts, Regulations and codes of practice we are responsible for and find information on workplace inspections and prosecutions.
Find health and safety information and guidance about your industry and the kind of work you do.
A listing of useful resources available on the website. Use the in-page search or filters to find what you need.
Following the agreement of a national ban of engineered stone in December 2023, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) reminds all stakeholders that the ban is now in effect (as at 1 July 2024).
Inspectors from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) will begin auditing businesses operating from buildings built prior to 1990 as part of planned asbestos compliance activities. The compliance blitz will begin on 1 August 2024 and continue until the end of October 2024.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) has begun a state-wide compliance blitz to reduce serious workplace incidents in Queensland’s high risk construction industry. WHSQ inspectors will be targeting construction sites across Queensland between July and September 2024.
During the construction blitz being undertaken between July and September 2024, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors will be asking you about your arrangements for supervising young workers and apprentices.
Legislative changes will come into effect following the passage of the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 through Queensland parliament.