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.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors audited 113 construction projects during November and December 2023 as part of a statewide blitz.
Falls from height and asbestos incidents contributed to more than 50 per cent of the successful construction-related work health and safety prosecutions in 2023.
Jed Millen is a Workplace Health and Safety Queensland Safety Advocate. His career as a rigger ended when the bridge deck he was working on collapsed under his feet and he fell five metres onto the ground, permanently injuring his upper spine vertebrae.
Builders, renovators, fabricators, and those working in the construction industry are being reminded of the upcoming national ban on the use, supply, manufacture, and installation of engineered stone which will come into effect in Queensland on 1 July 2024.
The interactive Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) tool is now available on the Safe Work Australia website.
Persons in control of a business or undertaking have a duty to prevent workers and other people from being injured by any falling object during formwork activities.