Work Health and Safety Act 2011¶


Regulator	Safe Work Australia
Jurisdiction	AU
Status	live
Applicability	External — Work health and safety obligations for employees and workplace. External HR and facilities management.

Outside platform boundary

Work health and safety obligations for employees and workplace. External HR and facilities management.

The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 imposes duties on persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers and others affected by their work. The primary regulator is Safe Work Australia; enforcement is carried out by state and territory regulators (SafeWork NSW, WorkSafe Victoria, etc.) depending on where the business operates.

Key obligations include: the primary duty of care (S.19 — eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety), worker participation (health and safety representatives, health and safety committees), and notifiable incidents (S.38 — serious injury, serious illness, and dangerous incidents must be notified to the relevant regulator immediately).

Platform scope¶

The platform plays no role in meeting obligations under the WHS Act.

All obligations under this Act are owned by the People and Operations function. They concern the physical and psychological safety of the bank's employees and contractors in the workplace — not the design or operation of the banking platform. The platform does not record workplace incidents, manage WHS registers, or interact with SafeWork regulators.

Compliance register¶

Scope legend¶

Symbol	Meaning
🏛 Institutional	Obligation is met by a process entirely outside the platform — HR, facilities management, legal.

Primary duty of care (S.19)¶

Obligation	Scope	Owner	Platform evidence input
Eliminate or minimise risks to the health, safety, and welfare of workers and others at the workplace, so far as is reasonably practicable	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None — entirely external to the platform
Provide and maintain a safe working environment, safe systems of work, and adequate facilities	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer / Head of Operations	None
Provide and maintain plant and structures in a safe condition	🏛 Institutional	Head of Operations	None
Provide adequate information, training, instruction, and supervision	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None

Worker participation (ss.46–79)¶

Obligation	Scope	Owner	Platform evidence input
Facilitate the election of health and safety representatives (HSRs) where requested by workers	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None
Consult with workers (and their HSRs) on matters that may affect their health and safety	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None
Establish health and safety committees where required or requested	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None

Notifiable incidents (S.38)¶

Obligation	Scope	Owner	Platform evidence input
Notify the relevant WHS regulator immediately of a notifiable incident (serious injury, serious illness, or dangerous incident); preserve the incident site	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer / General Counsel	None
Keep a record of all notifiable incidents for at least five years	🏛 Institutional	Chief People Officer	None

Coverage summary¶

Area	Total obligations	Institutional 🏛
Primary duty of care	4	4
Worker participation	3	3
Notifiable incidents	2	2
Total	9	9 (100%)

All WHS Act obligations are institutional. The platform provides no controls or evidence inputs under this Act.

Policy	Title
PPL-005	Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policy

Official documentation¶

Policies referencing this standard¶

PPL-005 — Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policy

Compiled 2026-05-22 from source/entities/regulations/au-whs-act.yaml