WHS Legal Register

A pre-filled WHS legal register for Queensland businesses, ready to use as your legislation register template. It lists 88 instruments with the official title and year, the type, the date the copy of the law was current, and what each covers and who owes the main duty: Queensland Acts and Regulations, the Codes of Practice Notice, all 43 approved codes of practice in Schedule 1 of the Notice with their item numbers, commencement dates and variations, the Electrical Safety codes and six Commonwealth laws on refrigerants, drones and privacy. You add your own decisions: whether each law applies to your business, where, who is responsible, when it was last reviewed and when the next review is due. Reviews overdue turn red.

What Is Included In Our WHS Legal Register?

• A Start Here sheet: type your details once and they appear on every sheet and printed page
• 34 Queensland Acts, Regulations and Notices, each with its official title, type and the date it was current
• All 43 approved codes of practice in Schedule 1 of the Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022, with item number, commencement date and the dates it was varied
• Four Electrical Safety codes of practice and the recreational diving and snorkelling code, listed separately from the approved codes
• Six Commonwealth laws that apply to work in Queensland: refrigerants, privacy, drone operations and aviation safety reporting
• What each law covers and who owes the main duty: PCBU, officer, worker, operator, occupier, driver or licence holder
• Applies to Us? drop-down, where it applies, responsible person, last reviewed and next review due
• Next review dates that turn amber and then red, with counts of reviews overdue and due soon and of the laws that apply to you
• Rows you mark No turn grey, and room to add other laws that apply to your business
• A plain-English summary of the duties of a PCBU, an officer and a worker, how approved codes of practice work and which Acts apply instead of the WHS Act at mines

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): s 19 (primary duty of care), s 26A (approved codes of practice), s 27 (duties of officers), ss 28 and 29 (duties of workers and other persons), Schedule 1 (mining)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): Schedule 1 (approved codes) and Schedule 1A (revoked codes)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): s 44 (codes of practice)

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Excel workbook with no macros
• 88 pre-filled entries, drop-down lists, frozen headings, review date highlighting and counts on the Start Here sheet
• Room for 150 rows, with more rows when you need them
• Print-ready pages with your business and site details repeated on every printed page
• Drop-down options you can change on the Lists sheet

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.