WHSQ
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Queensland WHS regulator.
7
Obligations enforced
2
Enforcement actions tracked
1
Scope topics
Obligations enforced by WHSQ (7)
- criticalCWLTHAsbestos management — workplace + dwelling rules (state)
Asbestos work requires licensed asbestos removalist + asbestos management plan.
- criticalCWLTHComply with reduced respirable crystalline silica WEL (0.025 mg/m³)
WEL for respirable crystalline silica is halved from 1 December 2026.
- criticalCWLTHHold a Construction Induction (White Card) before construction site work
All construction site workers must have completed nationally recognised induction training (CPCWHS1001).
- criticalCWLTHManage psychosocial hazards at work
WHS duty extends to psychosocial hazards — workload, bullying, harassment, role conflict.
- criticalQLDPCBU primary duty of care (QLD WHS Act s 19)
QLD PCBUs must ensure health and safety so far as reasonably practicable; industrial manslaughter live since 2017.
- criticalQLDQLD coal mining safety obligations (Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999)
QLD coal mine operators must ensure acceptable level of risk under the Act.
- highCWLTHHold a High Risk Work Licence for HRWL classes
Forklift, crane, scaffolding, dogging, rigging, EWP and other high-risk work requires a HRWL.
Recent WHSQ enforcement
- criminal conviction2024WorkSafe QLD construction prosecutions 2024
Multiple construction-sector convictions including industrial manslaughter; ongoing Brisbane Auto Recycling sentencing review.
- criminal conviction$3.0M2023WorkSafe Queensland industrial manslaughter conviction
Worker killed when struck by a reversing forklift at an auto recycling yard. Multiple WHS failures identified.
Scope topics
Source: regulator's own website. Rules Mate links and summarises — we don't republish full statutory text.