
Occupational Health and Safety Harmonisation Bares its Teeth in New South Wales
31 March 2017Since Safe Work Australia’s 2008 commitment to ‘harmonise’ Australian Occupational Health & Safety Laws (‘OHS’), the so-called ‘model legislation’, the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (‘WHS Act’), has gone from strength to strength. As it currently stands, the WHS Act has been passed in near identical form across all Australian jurisdictions except for Victoria and Western Australia.