Statement of Regulatory Intent
- Implementation of work health and safety regulations relating to high risk work licences for the use of earthmoving machinery used as a crane
Note: Valid for the period 10 August to 10 December 2025. - Implementation of work health and safety regulations relating to crystalline silica processes
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
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)
Regulatory capability review
PwC had been engaged to undertake a Regulatory Capability Review of WorkSafe Mines Safety (Review). The purpose of this Review is to understand the Department’s protocols for responding to sexual assault and sexual harassment in the mining industry.