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.
Learn about our participation in enforcement interventions and campaigns.
Information about whole of industry interventions and campaigns, including information on asbestos registers and participative ergonomics for manual tasks (PErforM).
Interventions and projects in the agriculture, fisheries and forestry industry, including information on manual tasks and quad bike safety.
Interventions and campaigns in the construction industry within Queensland.
Read about interventions in the manufacturing industry, including information on legionella cooling towers, meat and aluminium boat building industry.
Interventions and campaigns in the transport industry in Queensland.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) is conducting an awareness and enforcement campaign to support the introduction of the Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements code of practice 2022. Inspectors will assess both construction sites and workplaces manufacturing construction elements.
Interventions and campaigns in other industries.