WHSQ Proactive Compliance Program Manufacturing and Transport Sector
Source: WHSQ (15.04.2025)
Manufacturing and transport compliance campaigns – from April 2025
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) will be commencing two state-wide compliance campaigns from April 2025. The manufacturing industry campaign will target fixed plant hazards, while the transport industry campaign will target mobile plant hazards. Plant includes machinery, equipment, appliances, containers, implements and tools and any components or anything fitted or connected to those things.
What do you need to know about this compliance campaign?
This campaign is part of the WHS Compliance and Field Services Proactive Compliance Program 2024 – 2027 and WHSQ’s plan for safer workplaces in Queensland.
Throughout the campaign, WHSQ inspectors will:
- conduct audits of manufacturing and transport workplaces throughout Queensland
- focus on critical areas including hazard identification, safe systems of work, exclusion zones, guarding, vehicle routes, pedestrian walkways and loading/unloading areas
- assess compliance and take action where breaches are identified in accordance with the Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Policy.
How you can prepare
Businesses and workers each play important roles in keeping manufacturing and transport workplaces safe in Queensland.
When preparing for previous campaigns, businesses found the following self-assessment tools helpful to assess their compliance with Queensland’s workplace health and safety legislation:
 | Onsite traffic management self-assessment tool |
 | Manufacturing fixed plant self-assessment tool |
Other resources created in collaboration with industry stakeholders are also available to help businesses reduce risks associated with mobile plant and fixed plant hazards.
An important step is to conduct a regular risk assessment of your workplace to assess your critical risks. A risk assessment can help you determine how severe a risk is, whether existing control measures are effective, what action you should take to control the risk, and how urgently the action needs to be taken. Visit Managing risks for more information on how to conduct an effective risk assessment.
Where to get help
Take advantage of the tailored, face-to-face advice provided by our Injury Prevention and Management (IPaM) advisors. IPaM advisors can assist you assess your systems and advise you on how to make improvements. IPaM is free for Queensland businesses. Register for IPaM or email whsqadvisoryfieldservices@oir.qld.gov.au now for more information.
Background
When someone is injured at work, it poses a significant burden on them, their employer and the community more broadly through additional healthcare costs, reduced work participation and loss of productivity.
Having a good practical understanding of your work health and safety duties and using safe work practices can help save lives and provide broad economic benefits for all Australians, including businesses.
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For more information, visit WorkSafe.qld.gov.au or contact 1300 362 128 for additional guidance.
