Bill
Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022
passed, as at 2023-03-21. Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment and Workplace Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- other — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- other — 2023-02-09
- third reading — 2023-02-09
- introduced — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-03-08
- second reading — 2023-03-09
- second reading — 2023-03-09
- committee — 2023-03-09
- third reading — 2023-03-09
- passed — 2023-03-09
- royal assent — 2023-03-21
Divisions
- Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022 - in Committee - Prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine discrimination — 2023-03-09, Senate: negative, ayes 5, noes 31
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-12-01.
The bill would update the Commonwealth's work health and safety law to match recent changes to the national model law.
It would make several technical amendments, including adding negligence as a fault element for the most serious offence and giving health and safety representatives the right to choose their training course.
The bill would also allow Comcare to share information with other regulators and extend the deadline to request a prosecution for certain offences from 12 months to 18 months.
- Adds negligence as a fault element for the Category 1 offence.
- Gives health and safety representatives the right to choose their training course.
- Extends the deadline to request a prosecution for a Category 1 or 2 offence from 12 months to 18 months.
- Prohibits contracts of insurance covering liability for monetary penalties under the WHS Act.
- Creates a new offence for officers of bodies corporate that breach the insurance prohibition.
- Clarifies that Comcare may share information with other regulators.
Work health and safety regulators, employers, workers, health and safety representatives, and officers of bodies corporate.
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