The quest for a national or harmonised approach to occupational
health and safety continues.
In April this year, Safe Work Australia approved the current
version of the model Work Health and Safety Act. That
version incorporated technical and drafting amendments, endorsed by
the Workplace Relations Ministers' Council, which were made
following a period of public comment.
With the model Act as good as done, the focus is now on
developing appropriate accompanying regulations and codes of
practice. To that end, Safe Work Australia recently released
for public comment the draft model Work Health and Safety
Regulations (Regulations) and some priority
Codes of Practice (Codes). To
access the Regulations and the Codes, please
click here...
