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) (www.wa.gov.au)
• How to determine what is reasonably practicable to meet a health and safety duty (www.wa.gov.au)
• Discriminatory, coercive and misleading conduct (www.wa.gov.au)
• The health and safety duty of an officer (www.wa.gov.au)
• Duty of persons conducting business or undertakings that provide services relating to work health and safety (www.wa.gov.au)
• Incident notification (www.wa.gov.au)

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) 

Statement of Regulatory intent: Implementation of Work Health and Safety legislation in WA

This Statement from the regulator provides the principles for the regulatory approach that WorkSafe (inclusive of the general industries, mines safety and petroleum safety inspectorates) will use during the first twelve months upon implementation of the work health and safety (WHS) legislation in WA.

The Statement of Regulatory Intent is available on www.wa.gov.au.