07/04/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/03/2024 16:41
4 July 2024
As of 1 July 2024, the penalties for breaches of the Commonwealth Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) have increased under a new indexation mechanism. The indexation provisions were inserted into the WHS Act by the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Act2023.
The indexation provisions increase all WHS Act penalty amounts annually by reference to the Consumer Price Index. The monetary penalties increased by more than 10 per cent from 1 July 2024.
The new maximum penalty amounts for a body corporate for the Categories 1 to 3 offences are:
The WHS Act now refers to all monetary penalties in terms of three separate types, under amendments that came into effect in December 2023:
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