Proactive Compliance Program 2024–2027

The Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) Compliance and Field Services Proactive Compliance Program 2024–2027 serves as a strategic guide for WHSQ’s compliance-focused proactive work program.

It establishes proactive compliance priorities, informed by the overarching Office of Industrial Relations Priority Plan 2024–2030 (PDF, 0.74 MB), the Worker Consultation, Representation, and Participation Strategy 2024–2027 and key operational data.

The Proactive Compliance Program (PCP) details the inspectorates planned compliance activities from 2024 to 2027, targeting priority industries, critical workplace hazards and vulnerable workers who face heightened health and safety risks. Using a risk-based approach, the PCP aims to improve and promote workplace health and safety compliance across Queensland.

Each proactive compliance campaign follows a flexible project management framework, incorporating phases of communication, evaluation and reporting to ensure effectiveness and adaptability.

Throughout 2024, three proactive compliance campaigns ran under the PCP:

• Construction industry: focusing on falls from height, scaffolding and contact with overhead powerlines
• Recreational industry: focused on the safety of amusement devices
• Asbestos management: targeting workplaces in buildings constructed before 1990 and those likely containing asbestos that require asbestos registers and asbestos management plans.

Looking ahead to 2025, WHSQ plans to deliver additional compliance campaigns across the agriculture, construction, transport, manufacturing and recreational industry sectors. The upcoming agricultural campaign will emphasise electrical safety, with detailed industry guidance to be shared soon direct to industry representatives and via the Rural eSAFE newsletter.

View the WHS Compliance and Field Services Proactive Compliance Program 2024-2027.

More information

For further information about the PCP's strategic alignment, the enforcement of work health and safety and electrical laws and WHSQ's commitment to improving workplace health and safety compliance in Queensland, visit Our approach.