Workplace Health and Safety

Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) is the discipline concerned with protecting the health and safety of all stakeholders in the workplace from exposure to hazards and risks resulting from work activities.

For consulting engineering firms this involves obligations in relation to their own workplaces and workplaces which they design.

The most prominent reasons for the existence of workplace safety legislation is that it allows us to govern, regulate and authorise basic workplace rights for employers, employees and others impacted from work activities.

Consult Australia unequivocally supports the adoption of WHS laws, regulations, and codes of practices that deliver improved workplace health and safety performance and safer working environments throughout Australia for all stakeholders.

The Consult Australia WHS Strategy 2008/09

Specific Issues

• Nationally Consistent WHS Laws
• Designer WHS Information
• Safety in Design

Consult Australia WHS Submissions

• Safe Design Regulatory Requirements and the Model WHS Act
• NSW Safe Design Guide to Building and Structures
• WA Safe Design of Buildings and Structures
• QLD Regulations 1997 Review
• Comcare Review
• VIC Compliance Codes Review
• National Review into Model OHS Laws
• Housing Falls Code

Consult Australia Workplace Health and Safety Roundtable

Click here to access the members area for the Workplace Health and Safety Roundtable. (If you require a user ID and password, please send an e-mail to info@consultaustralia.com.au).