Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (FEDERAL)
Australian Government
FEDERAL LEGISLATION.
This is a compilation of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 1 December 2019 (the compilation date).
The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Preliminary
Part 1.1: Introductory matters
Part 1.2: Application
Part 1.3: Incorporated documents
Chapter 2: Representation and participation
Part 2.1: Representation
Division 1: Work groups
Division 2: Health and safety representatives
Part 2.2: Issue Resolution
Part 2.3: Cessation of Unsafe Work
Part 2.4: Workplace Entry by WHS Entry Permit Holders
Chapter 3: General risk and workplace management
Part 3.1: Managing risks to health and safety
Part 3.2: General Workplace Management
Division 1: Information, training and instruction
Division 2: General working environment
Division 3: First aid
Division 4: Emergency plans
Division 5: Personal protective equipment
Division 6: Remote or isolated work
Division 7: Managing risks from airborne contaminants
Division 8: Hazardous atmospheres
Division 9: Storage of flammable or combustible substances
Division 10: Falling objects
Chapter 4: Hazardous work
Part 4.1: Noise
Part 4.2: Hazardous Manual Tasks
Part 4.3: Confined Spaces
Division 1: Preliminary
Division 2: Duties of designer, manufacturer, importer, supplier, installer and constructor of plant or structure
Division 3: Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
Part 4.4: Falls
Part 4.5: High Risk Work
Division 1: Licensing of high risk work
Subdivision 1: Requirement to be licensed
Subdivision 2: Licensing process
Subdivision 3: Amendment of licence document
Subdivision 4: Renewal of high risk work licence
Subdivision 5: Suspension and cancellation of high risk work licence
Part 4.6: Demolition work
Part 4.7: General Electrical Safety in Workplaces and Energised Electrical Work
Division 1: Preliminary
Division 2: General risk management
Division 3: Electrical equipment and electrical installations
Division 4: Electrical work on energised electrical equipment
Division 5: Electrical equipment and installations and construction workadditional duties
Division 6: Residual current devices
Division 7: Overhead and underground electric lines
Part 4.8: Diving Work
Division 1: Preliminary
Division 2: General diving workFitness and competence of worker
Division 3: Managing risksgeneral diving work
Division 4: High risk diving work
Chapter 5: Plant and structures
Part 5.1: General duties for plant and structures
Division 1: Preliminary
Division 2: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that design plant
Division 3: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that manufacture plant
Division 4: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that import plant
Division 5: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that supply plant
Division 6: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant
Division 7: General duties of persons conducting a business or undertaking involving the management or control of plant
Subdivision 1: Management of risks
Subdivision 2: Additional control measures for general plant
Subdivision 3: Additional control measures for certain plant
Part 5.2: Additional duties relating to registered plant and plant designs
Division 1: Application of Part 5.2
Division 2: Duty of persons conducting a business or undertaking who design plant to record plant design
Division 3: Duties of persons conducting a business or undertaking
Division 4: Duties of persons conducting a business or undertaking involving the management or control of plant
Subdivision 1: Control measures for registered plant
Subdivision 2: Control measures for amusement devices
Part 5.3: Registration of plant designs and items of plant
Division 1: Plant designs to be registered
Division 2: Items of plant to be registered
Division 3: Registration process for plant design
Division 4: Registration process for an item of plant
Division 5: Changes to registration and registration documents
Division 6: Cancellation of registration
Chapter 6: Construction work
Part 6.1: Preliminary
Part 6.2: Duties of designer of structure and person who commissions construction work
Part 6.3: Duties of person conducting business or undertaking
Division 1: General
Division 2: High risk construction worksafe work method statements
Division 3: Excavation work
Part 6.4: Additional duties of principal contractor
Part 6.5: General construction induction training
Division 1: General construction induction training requirements
Division 2: General construction induction training cards
Division 3: Duties of workers
Chapter 7: Hazardous chemicals
Part 7.1: Hazardous chemicals
Division 1: Application of Part 7.1
Division 2: Obligations relating to safety data sheets and other matters
Subdivision 1: Obligations of manufacturers and importers
Subdivision 2: Obligations of supplier
Subdivision 3: Obligations of persons conducting businesses or undertakings
Division 3: Register and manifest of hazardous chemicals
Subdivision 1Hazardous chemicals register
Subdivision 2: Manifest of Schedule 11 hazardous chemicals
Division 4: Placards
Division 5: Control of riskobligations of persons conducting businesses or undertakings
Subdivision 1: General obligations relating to management of risk
Subdivision 2: Spills and damage
Subdivision 3: Emergency plans and safety equipment
Subdivision 4: Storage and handling systems
Division 6: Health monitoring
Division 7: Induction, information, training and supervision
Division 8: Prohibition, authorisation and restricted use
Division 9: Pipelines
Part 7.2: Lead
Division 1: Lead process
Division 2: Control of risk
Division 3: Lead risk work
Division 4: Health monitoring
Chapter 8: Asbestos
Part 8.1: Prohibitions and authorised conduct
Part 8.2: General duty
Part 8.3: Management of asbestos and associated risks
Part 8.4: Management of naturally occurring asbestos
Part 8.5: Asbestos at the workplace
Division 1: Health monitoring
Division 2: Training
Division 3: Control on use of certain equipment
Part 8.6: Demolition and refurbishment
Part 8.7: Asbestos removal work
Part 8.8: Asbestos removal requiring Class A licence
Part 8.9: Asbestos related wor
Part 8.10: Licensing of asbestos removalists and asbestos assessors
Division 1: Asbestos removalistsrequirement to be licensed
Division 2: Asbestos assessorsrequirement to be licensed
Division 3: Licensing process
Division 4: Amendment of licence and licence document
Division 5: Renewal of licence
Division 6: Suspension and cancellation of licence
Division 7: General
Chapter 9: Major hazard facilities
Part 9.1: Preliminary
Division 1: Application and interpretation
Division 2: Requirement to be licensed
Part 9.2: Determinations about Major Hazard Facilities
Part 9.3: Duties of Operators of Determined Major Hazard Facilities
Division 1: Application of Part 9.3
Division 2: Safety case outline
Division 3: Management of risk
Division 4: Safety case
Part 9.4: Licensed major hazard facilitiesrisk management
Part 9.5: Consultation and Workers’ Safety role
Part 9.6: Duties of Workers at Licensed Major Hazard Facilities
Part 9.7: Licensing of major hazard facilities
Division 1: Licensing process
Division 2: Amendment of licence and licence document
Division 3: Renewal of major hazard facility licence
Division 4: Transfer of major hazard facility licence
Division 5: Suspension and cancellation of major hazard facility licence
Chapter 10: Mines
Chapter 11: General
Part 11.1: Review of Decisions under these Regulations
Division 1: Reviewable decisions
Division 2: Internal review
Division 3: External review
Part 11.2: Exemptions
Division 1: General
Division 2: High risk work licences
Facilities 3: Major Hazard facilities
Division 4: Exemption process
Part 11.3: Miscellaneous
Chapter 12: Transitional and saving provisions
Part 4: Hazardous work
Division 4.1: Noise
Division 4.2: Hazardous manual tasks
Part 5: Plant and structure
Division 5.1: General duties for plant and structures
Subdivision 2: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that design plant
Subdivision 3: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that manufacture plant
Subdivision 4: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that import plant
Subdivision 5: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that supply plant
Subdivision 6: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that install, construct or commission plant or structures
Division 5.2: Additional duties relating to registered plant and plant designs
Subdivision 2: Duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings who design plant
Division 5.3: Registration of plant designs and items of plant
Part 9: Major hazard facilities
Division 9.7: Licensing of major hazard facilities
Part 12: Other transitional matters
Division 1: Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Division 3: Codes of practice
Schedule 1: Revocation of regulations
Schedule 2: Fees Schedule 3High risk work licences and classes of high risk work
Schedule 4: High risk work licencescompetency requirements
Schedule 5: Registration of plant and plant designs
Part 1: Plant requiring registration of design
Part 2: Items of plant requiring registration
Schedule 6: Classification of mixtures
Schedule 7: Safety data sheets
Schedule 8: Disclosure of ingredients in safety data sheet
Schedule 9: Classification, packaging and labelling requirements
Part 1: Correct classification
Part 2: Correct packing
Part 3: Correct labelling
Schedule 10: Prohibited carcinogens, restricted carcinogens and restricted hazardous chemicals
Schedule 11: Placard and manifest quantities
Schedule 12: Manifest requirements
Schedule 13: Placard requirements
Schedule 14: Requirements for health monitoring
Schedule 15: Hazardous chemicals at major hazard facilities (and their threshold quantity
Schedule 16: Matters to be included in emergency plan for major hazard facility
Schedule 17: Additional matters to be included in safety management system of major hazard facility
Schedule 18: Additional matters to be included in safety case for a major hazard facility
Part 1: Facility description
Part 2: Safety information