Information

Legislation

The principal legislation relevant to health and safety in New South Wales workplaces is the:

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (opens an external site),
• supported by the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 (opens an external site).

Other legislation relating to the environment, health and safety applicable to UTS and its operations include:

New South Wales

All links that appear below open external sites.

• Contaminated Land Management Act 1997
• Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985
• Food Act 2003
• Gene Technology (New South Wales) Act 2003
• Ozone Protection Act 1989
• Pesticides Act 1999
• Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966
• Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
• Public Health Act 2010
• Radiation Control Act 1990
• Smoke-free Environment Act 2000
• Workers Compensation Act 1987
• Workers Compensation Regulation 2010
• Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998

Commonwealth

• Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
• Gene Technology Act 2000
• Gene Technology (Licence Charges) Act 2000

External health and safety management resources

All links below are to external web sites.

Australian government

• New South Wales

  • WorkCover Authority of New South Wales (now known as SafeWork NSW)

• Commonwealth

  • Safe Work Australia
    formerly the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
  • Communicable Diseases Network Australia
  • Office of the Gene Technology Regulator

• Other states and territories

  • WorkSafe ACT
  • Northern Territory WorkSafe
  • WorkCover Queensland
  • Returnto WorkSA (formerly WorkCover South Australia)
  • WorkCover Tasmania
  • WorkSafe, Department of Commerce, Western Australia
  • WorkSafe Victoria

Australian non-government organisations

• Australasian Legal Information Institute
• Standards Australia
• Australasian Radiation Protection Society Inc.
• Safety Institute of Australia
• Risk Management Institution of Australasia

International

• Government

  • WorkSafe New Zealand
  • Health and Safety Executive, UK
  • US Department of Labor - Occupational Safety & Health Administration
  • US National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)
  • Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

• Non-government organisations

  • International Labour Organization - Occupational Health and Safety
  • International Ergonomics Association (IEA)
  • Exemplar Global (formerly RABQSA)