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Wearing sunglasses with the appropriate level of protection, can help prevent serious damage to your eyes including cataracts and eye cancers. However, some sunglasses can create a hazard by impairing vision. For example, sunglasses with category 4 protection offer a very high level of glare...
Product safety for consumers
A simple guide to help you understand your rights as a consumer.
Consumer Protection
Brochure
11 Apr 2022
Once the hazards have been identified and their associated risks assessed, the next step is to consider: If the hazards can be removed altogether, and if not How the risks can be controlled so as to minimise harm? The strategy recommending how to control risks in the order of effectiveness is...
Follow these four basic steps to get started
Once the hazards have been identified, the risk need to be assessed. This include determining: Who will be affected and how? How severe is the harm likely to be? (extreme, high, moderate, and low). How likely is it to happen? (very likely, likely, moderate, unlikely and rare). Remember that your...
Follow these four basic steps to get started
Private overhead power poles lines Power poles and overhead lines which transport electricity from your main switchboard and meter to your home or other buildings are private power poles and lines...
Building and Energy
Brochure
16 May 2023
Consumers with a disability – be on guard against scammers trying to take advantage of you. Consumer Protection is warning consumers with a disability to be on guard against scams – unfortunately, scammers target people whom they think may be vulnerable to try and take advantage of them. Some...
People with disability
Know your rights. We provide information for consumers buying disability-related products and services, including participants under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Under the Australian Consumer Law, you have the right to expect a product or service will do or perform as it should...
People with disability
The Director of Energy Safety can prohibit the sale/hire/use of an appliance or component if considered that such appliance/component is, or is likely to become, unsafe or dangerous in use. This applies also to gas appliances/components that are approved. Appliances that may be unsafe or dangerous...
Gas appliances
CP Awards - 2024
CP Awards - 2024, by Consumer Protection
2024 Consumer Protection Awards Congratulations to the 2024 winners - the year we celebrate our 20th anniversary of the awards. Read more at our winners and finalists page . Register your email to be kept informed on winners and updates. About the Consumer...
Consumer Protection Awards
A national recall is being coordinated by a taskforce chaired by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Building and Energy and Consumer Protection are working with the taskforce as the WA regulators. The sub-standard cables, imported by Infinity Cable Co Pty Ltd (in liquidation...
Electrical installations

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