Latest WorkCover Queensland News

Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024
New regulation on processing crystalline silica substances in effect (1 September 2024)
Return To Work Services Table Of Costs Update
Court orders $400,000 fine after a fatality at a sporting complex
New statewide campaign to reduce fatalities and critical injuries
New mental injury resources from WorkCover to help employers support workers
Safety Priority For Diving And Snorkelling Industry
Workplace health and safety laws now apply to sex industry workers
Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024
Public Health Services Table of Costs update – effective 1 July 2024
Compliance Blitz Targets Construction Industry
Upcoming asbestos management compliance audits for Queensland businesses
Ban On Engineered Stone In Effect
Time To Renew Your WorkCover Accident Insurance Policy 1 July
Updated Allied Health Fees – Effective 1 July 2024
WorkCover Fraud Leads To Five Months Imprisonment
New Chief Executive For WorkCover Queensland
WorkCover Queensland customers continue to benefit from one of Australia’s lowest average premium rates
Work Health And Safety Laws – Clarified And Stronger
Company’s ‘failure to provide’ results in $24,000 workers’ comp fine
New Safety Laws For Quad Bikes
Company fined $150,000 for failing to adhere to electrical safety regulations
Engineered Stone Ban In Effect From 1 July 2024
Allied Health Services Tables of Costs review for 2024-2025
Joint WHSQ and Department of Environment, Science and Innovation investigation into asbestos in mulch
Waste transfer and recycling business fined $140,000 for fatality
Townsville business and director fined over trailer collapse in spray painting booth
Opportunity to join Queensland’s Medical Assessment Tribunals
WorkCover Queensland CEO Bruce Watson retiring
Sparkie fined $10,000 for live switchboard in Sunshine Coast classroom
New code of practice for amusement rides
Electric shock results in $85,000 fine for aquatic centre
Pie company fined after worker suffers multiple fractures
Hefty fine for house demolition with complete disregard for asbestos laws
Construction sites urged to prepare for wild weather and summer shutdown
Piling contractor fined $40,000 after pressure explosion on Western Downs
Annual update of Medical Tables of Costs
Annual update of the Private Hospital Services Table of Costs
Company fined $60,000 for exposing workers to trench collapse risk
Queensland ready for 2023 Asbestos Awareness Week
Queensland energy supplier fined $300,000 after powerline fatality
Gold Coast nightclub faces music in court
Audiology panel tender now open
Annual review of Medical Table of Costs
Electrician prosecuted for unsafe electrical work in ceiling spaces
Queensland’s 2023 Work Well Awards finalists announced
Joint initiative aims to reduce plumbers’ risk of injury
High Court clears employer of vicarious liability in unusual workplace incident