How to notify us over the holiday period.
Notifications
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work – phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away. We have staff available to respond to these 24/7.
If you’re not sure what a notifiable event is, including your obligation to hold a scene, visit What events need to be notified?
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 12pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and 8.30am on Monday 6 January 2025.
If you’re not sure if you need to notify us, use our online notification system and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Health and safety concerns
If you have a health and safety concern that isn’t urgent, use our online form and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Raise a health or safety concern
General enquiries
General enquiries made by phone or email after 12pm on Tuesday 24 December will be responded to from Monday 6 January 2025. This does not apply to notifications made by phone on 0800 030 040.
We wish you a safe and relaxing holiday.
The Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017 allow us to issue performance standards that set out requirements that a compliance certifier must comply with when performing their functions.
Compliance certifiers check PCBU compliance with specific requirements to ensure hazardous substances are safely used, handled, stored or manufactured. A compliance certifier has the authority to issue a compliance certificate where the Regulations specify that one must be obtained to verify these requirements have been met.
The draft Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances—Information and Procedure Requirements for Compliance Certifiers) Performance Standard 2018 is the first of three new performance standards that WorkSafe intends to issue.
Two more draft performance standards will be released for consultation in the next few weeks; these are:
- the draft Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances—Certified Handler Compliance Certification) Performance Standard 2018, and
- the draft Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances—Location Compliance Certificate for Classes 2, 6, and 8 Hazardous Substances) Performance Standard 2018
Before issuing a performance standard we must consult compliance certifiers and any other persons WorkSafe considers appropriate. Your comments and feedback about the draft information and procedure performance standard will be considered prior to finalising the performance standard.
Summary of submissions
The summary and analyisis of the submissions recieved can be found below. For the resultant performance standard, please refer to performance standards for compliance certifiers.
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