Legislation

Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)

NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Act, New South Wales.

Version: Current version for 1 July 2026 to date
Last read: 7 October 2026

The New South Wales work health and safety legislation, which sets the duties a business or undertaking and its officers are read against, including the duty to notify the regulator of a notifiable incident and to keep a record of it.

What changed

1 July 2026Current version for 1 July 2026 to dateSafeWork NSW's page on the Workplace Protections Amendment Act lists a new duty to comply with codes of practice as commencing on 1 July 2026. The Act carries it as section 26A, shown as inserted by 2025 No 42, Sch 3[2].

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