Remaking the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017

New Regulation

The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 commenced 3 October 2025

Thank you to everyone who shared their feedback. Your contribution helped inform the new Regulation.

The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 commenced 3 October 2025.

This regulation repeals and replaces the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017.

The Work Health and Safety Regulation applies to all NSW workplaces to protect workers from risks to their health and safety.

We are asking for your feedback so we can improve, modernise and streamline the Regulation.

This consultation is divided into two parts:

Part 1: Consultation on WHS Regulation remake 2017 (NSW-specific WHS regulations)
Part 2: Consultation on the Model WHS Regulations (National WHS regulations).

Find more information on the National approach to WHS.

For more information on the scope of this consultation and the proposed amendments, see the Work Health and Safety Regulation consultation discussion paper.

Tell us what you think

We want to hear from workers, employers, unions and industry associations from all sectors.

To have your say, complete our short survey or upload a written submission.

Your feedback will help make sure WHS regulations reflect industry needs and protect workers and the community.

Have your say by Wednesday, 26 March 2025.

Timeline

Timeline item 1 - complete

Consultation open

Have your say by Wednesday, 26 March 2025.
Timeline item 2 - complete

Under review

Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re reviewing your responses.
Timeline item 3 - complete

New Regulation published

The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 is now available on the NSW Legislation website.

SafeWork NSW Policy Team
WHSPolicy@safework.nsw.gov.au

SafeWork NSW
If you have concerns about health and safety in the workplace, contact SafeWork NSW on 13 10 50.

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Privacy collection notice

1. Who we are

Your information is being collected by the Department of Customer Service (the Department) on behalf of SafeWork NSW. SafeWork NSW gives priority to protecting the privacy of your personal information, in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIP Act).

If you have any questions about this privacy collection notice, or how we handle your personal information, you can contact our Privacy team using the contact details at the end of this notice.

2. Why we collect your personal information

SafeWork NSW is collecting your personal information for the purposes of obtaining your thoughts to inform remaking the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017.

3. The kinds of information we collect

We may collect the following information:

Your name (if you choose to provide this)
Your email address (if you choose to provide this)
Some limited occupation information
Your feedback and opinion on the topic
If you are registered for the Have Your Say site, the Department will be able to see your login or username, email address and hometown or suburb associated with your submission, even if you choose to answer the survey anonymously
Any additional personal information if it is provided in free-text fields.

4. Failure to provide information

Your information is provided voluntarily. If you choose not to provide your information, you may not be able to complete the consultation, receive updates and outcomes of this consultation and/or be contacted about your submission.

5. How we may use this information

We may use the information we collect in the following ways:

To create a report on the outcome of this consultation and to inform remaking the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017.
To share your submission (including any personal information) with SafeWork NSW.
Internal administrative purposes, including providing you with occasional updates and outcomes of this public consultation (if you provide your personal information and agree for us to do so).
To support more informed policy making, program management, evaluation, research, and service planning as it can facilitate more efficient service delivery for residents and businesses in NSW.
To share your submission (including any personal information) with other parts of the Department, including the Data Analytics Centre, for the purposes of conducting analysis across all consultations and to refine our engagement methodology.
Other directly related purposes.

6. Who we may share your information with

Your responses along with your name or company/organisation may be published in a report on the outcome of this consultation should you agree for us to do so. Your responses will be published anonymously without your name, or your responses will be kept private depending on what you have agreed to in this survey.

The Have Your Say site is owned and operated by the Department using software licensed from Social Pinpoint. For details of how Social Pinpoint may access personal information, please refer to Social Pinpoint’s Privacy Policy.

We will not disclose your personal information to anybody unless we are authorised or permitted to do so by law or where you give consent. Our Privacy Statement describes when this may occur.

7. Protecting your information

We will store and manage your information in accordance with the provisions of the PPIP Act. We have measures in place to help protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or other misuse.

We will only keep information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. After which, the information will be disposed of securely in accordance with the State Records Act 1998 and any other applicable legislation.

See our Privacy Management Plan for more information about how we handle your personal information.

8. Your rights

Subject to certain conditions, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

The right to request access to your personal information

The right to request correction of your personal information.

If you wish to invoke any of the above rights, please contact us using the details below.

9. Contact us

If you would like to make a privacy enquiry or complaint, you can contact us at privacy@safework.nsw.gov.au.

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