Interpretive guidelines
Interpretive guidelines describe how the WHS regulator believes key concepts in the WHS Act will operate and provide an indication of how the laws will be enforced.
- The meaning of 'person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU)
- How to determine what is reasonably practicable to meet a health and safety duty
- Discriminatory, coercive and misleading conduct
- The health and safety duty of an officer
- Duty of persons conducting business or undertakings that provide services relating to work health and safety
- Incident notification
- Development and submission of a safety case
- Development and submission of a diving safety management system
- Development and submission of an onshore facility - drilling operations safety case
- Statement of Regulatory Intent: Implementation of work health and safety regulations relating to crystalline silica processes
WorkSafe policies
These policies support the Statement of Regulatory Intent and provide a framework for how decisions by the regulator and WorkSafe will be made.
- WorkSafe compliance and enforcement policy (www.wa.gov.au)
- WorkSafe prosecution policy (www.wa.gov.au)
- WHS undertakings policy (www.wa.gov.au)