Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
The code explicitly outlaws proactive inspections outside “high risk areas”, exempting hundreds of thousands of businesses from “burdensome” health and safety inspections. Businesses are now only inspected if they are operating in high-risk areas, such as construction, or if they have a poor safety record. And “major hazard” industries, including construction, waste recycling and high-risk manufacturing such as molten and base metal manufacture, are subject to unannounced inspection, but with a “light-touch” approach for “responsible businesses” that “do the right thing”.
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