Work health and safety and electrical safety prosecutions
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland actively enforces the law. This includes using enforceable undertakings as a compliance and enforcement tool.
Historically, we also prosecuted alleged offenders and actively drew public attention to individuals and organisations it successfully prosecuted for breaching the legislation.
A request to bring a prosecution for a category 1 or 2 offence under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 has been extended to up to 18 months after the act or omission. To learn more about other recent changes to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 by the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024.
Prosecuting obligation holders aims to provide a powerful deterrent to others. It draws attention to the consequences of workplace health and safety violations and the importance of healthy, safer workplaces.
Support
The Consultative committee for work-related fatalities and serious incidents was established to ensure there is an ongoing consultative forum for injured workers and families affected by a workplace death, illness or serious incident.
Learn more about what help is available if someone dies at work.
- Work health and safety consultation, co-operation and co-ordination Code of Practice 2021 (PDF, 0.54 MB)
- Queensland’s Worker Representation and Participation Guide
- Issue resolution fact sheet (PDF, 0.34 MB)