The Western Australian Government has called for comment on the costs and benefits of the proposed national Work Health and Safety (WHS) reform as they apply to the State’s workplaces.

 

The call for comment comes after the State has released an Information and Issues Paper designed to highlight the differences between Western Australia’s current occupational safety and health regulations and the new national WHS Regulations.

 

“Harmonised work health and safety laws will affect all Western Australian workplaces in varying degrees, and it is important that we all provide input during this consultation process to gauge the impact of the new laws on all WA workplaces,” WorkSafe WA Commissioner Lex McCulloch said.

 

The release of the paper and call for comment comes after the 2010 Australia-wide consultation process.

 

The issues paper can be found here