❓ Mr. Krsticevic asks WorkSafe about compliance and prosecution rates related to improvement notices issued in 2017-18 and 2018-19. The answer details compliance status and confirms no prosecutions resulted from non-compliance in those years or the preceding two years.
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refer to WorkSafe, and ask: (a) For each of the years 2017-18 and 2018-19 how many improvement notices issued by WorkSafe were not complied with; and (b) How many of the non-compliances were prosecuted by WorkSafe?
refer to WorkSafe, and ask: (a) For each of the years 2017-18 and 2018-19 how many improvement notices issued by WorkSafe were not complied with; and (b) How many of the non-compliances were prosecuted by WorkSafe?
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Answered
17 September 2019
Responded by
Minister for Industrial Relations
Response time
12 days
(a) Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1984 (OSH Act) duty holders are required to notify WorkSafe of compliance with the requirements of an improvement notice. WorkSafe inspectors follow up to verify compliance when no compliance notification slip is received, or as part of random audit.
The following table provides detail on the compliance status of the notices verified by WorkSafe inspectors.
Financial Year
Lapsed compliance
Compliance not achieved as identified by WorkSafe
Partial compliance achieved as identified by WorkSafe
2015-2016
0
27
42
2016-2017
4
32
37
2017-2018
0
27
36
2018-2019
0
41
25
Lapsed compliance means they have complied at a point in time, but since this compliance has lapsed (no longer compliant).
(b) None. This was also the case in years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Other actions, including site visits, are taken to ensure compliance with improvement notices. Improvement notices are issued where areas for improvement in workplace safety are identified, rather than prosecution notices for breaches of the OSH Act.
The following table provides detail on the compliance status of the notices verified by WorkSafe inspectors.
Financial Year
Lapsed compliance
Compliance not achieved as identified by WorkSafe
Partial compliance achieved as identified by WorkSafe
2015-2016
0
27
42
2016-2017
4
32
37
2017-2018
0
27
36
2018-2019
0
41
25
Lapsed compliance means they have complied at a point in time, but since this compliance has lapsed (no longer compliant).
(b) None. This was also the case in years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Other actions, including site visits, are taken to ensure compliance with improvement notices. Improvement notices are issued where areas for improvement in workplace safety are identified, rather than prosecution notices for breaches of the OSH Act.
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