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.
The Australian National Health Survey 2017-2018 highlights that construction industry workers, when compared to other industries, have higher rates of smoking and alcohol consumption.
Elevating work platforms, or EWPs, caused nine Australian work deaths 2015-19. They are high risk equipment and must be inspected at least annually. Safe Work Australia has published guidance on the EWP inspection, maintenance and testing programs that are crucial to assess their safe operation.
A flooring business has been fined $35,000 and its director given a 12-month court ordered undertaking after it was found the company had failed to follow its own safe work method statement for a building project, putting public health at risk.
Working from heights continues to be a high-risk activity and leading cause of death and serious injury in Australia, according to the latest figures from Safe Work Australia.
As workplaces and holiday makers rush to shake off the shackles of COVID-19 and enjoy the Easter break, construction workplaces must ensure they have plans in place to protect traffic control workers from tired drivers and heavy holiday traffic.
The importance of following manufacturers’ instructions and carrying out inspections and maintenance on schedule was brought home after a business was fined $135,000 for its part in a fatal incident.
The vast majority of national codes of practice recently reviewed and updated and now in effect in Queensland are for the construction industry.
With sprains and strains accounting for 43 per cent of workers’ compensation claims in the construction industry, new resources have been produced to help reduce the risks of hazardous manual tasks.
In November 2020, we reported on the main issues inspectors were finding on residential construction sites. These were uncontrolled risks of falls from height, electrical safety and site security. So far this year, our inspectors are not seeing an improvement.
Following the failure of a formwork deck during an active concrete pour on a construction site in Canberra in early 2020, a national working group agreed on a country-wide response to the incident.
The independent review of the Electrical Safety Act 2002 led by QBCC Board Chair Dick Williams is underway, considering updates to address the relevance and effectiveness of all definitions and all duties and requirements under the Act (and subordinate legislation), including on suppliers and generating entities.