A code of practice provides practical guidance for your business on how to achieve health and safety standards required under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act). A code of practice also has effective ways to identify and manage risks.

If you are conducting a business in Queensland, you must comply with an approved code of practice under the Act. You can use another method, such as a technical or an industry standard – as long as it provides an equivalent or higher standard of work health and safety to the standard required in the code.

Current codes of practice are:

• Abrasive blasting code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Amusement devices code of practice 2023
• Cash in transit code of practice 2011 (PDF, 762KB)
• Children and young workers code of practice 2006 (PDF, 427KB)
• Concrete pumping code of practice 2019 (PDF, 2MB)
• Confined spaces code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Construction and operation of solar farms code of practice–2024 (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Demolition work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 673KB)
• Electrical safety codes of practice 2020:
  • Electrical equipment rural industry (PDF, 668KB)
  • Managing electrical risks in the workplace (PDF, 1.2MB)
  • Working near overhead and underground electric lines (PDF, 477KB)
  • Works (PDF, 341KB)
• Excavation work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.9MB)
• First aid in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 491KB)
• Forest harvesting code of practice 2007 (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Formwork code of practice 2016 (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Foundry code of practice 2004 (PDF, 725KB)
• Hazardous manual tasks code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Horse riding schools, trail riding establishments and horse riding establishments code of practice 2002 (PDF, 630KB)
• How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1MB)
• How to manage work health and safety risks code of practice 2021 (PDF, 670KB)
• How to safely remove asbestos code of practice 2021 (PDF, 2.2MB)
• Labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements code of practice 2022
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in the stone benchtop industry code of practice 2019 (PDF, 935KB)
• Managing respirable dust hazards in coal-fired power stations code of practice 2023
• Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Managing risks in stevedoring code of practice 2023 (PDF, 846KB)
• Managing the risks of plant in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.7MB)
• Managing the risk of falls at workplaces code of practice 2021 (PDF, 4MB)
• Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work code of practice 2022
• Managing the work environment and facilities code of practice 2021 (PDF, 558KB)
• Manual tasks involving the handling of people code of practice 2001 (PDF, 1.2KB)
• Mobile crane code of practice 2006 (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Occupational diving work code of practice 2005 (PDF, 533KB)
• Preparation of safety data sheets for hazardous chemicals code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Recreational diving, recreational technical diving and snorkelling code of practice 2018 (PDF, 620KB)
• Recreational diving, recreational technical diving and snorkelling code of practice 2018 – comparative table (PDF, 620KB)
• Rural plant code of practice 2004 (PDF, 454KB)
• Safe design and operation of tractors code of practice 2005 (PDF, 511KB)
• Safe design of structures code of practice 2021 (PDF, 749KB)
• Scaffolding code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Spray painting and powder coating code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Steel construction code of practice 2004 (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Sugar industry code of practice 2005 (PDF, 626KB)
  • Cane rail safety – supplement to the sugar industry code of practice 2005 (PDF, 903KB)
  • Sugar mill safety – a supplement to the Sugar industry code of practice 2005 (PDF, 935KB)
• Tilt-up and pre-cast construction code of practice 2003 (PDF, 979KB)
• Tower crane code of practice 2017 (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Traffic management for construction or maintenance work code of practice 2008 (PDF, 817KB)
• Welding processes code of practice 2021 (PDF, 986KB)
• Work health and safety consultation, co-operation and co-ordination code of practice 2021 (PDF, 443KB)

Also consider...

• Find out more about work health and safety in Queensland.