Obligation packs, QLD
Regulatory coverage in Queensland
The law that applies in Queensland, the hazard families the packs cover there, and how your own people decide which rules to switch on.
The law that applies
The governing instruments in Queensland, and who administers them.
- Act
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
- Regulations
- Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
- Regulator
- Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
- Regime
- harmonised Work Health and Safety
Specific to Queensland
- Respirable crystalline silica is a Schedule 14 hazardous chemical, so both health monitoring and atmospheric (air) monitoring duties apply.
What is covered
9 hazard families ship for Queensland, each written against the instruments above.
- Respirable crystalline silica
- Asbestos
- Noise
- Lead
- Welding fume
- Hand-arm and whole-body vibration
- Isocyanates
- Diesel particulate matter
- Hazardous chemicals
Also covered in Queensland: High-risk work licences, Blue card (working with children).
How the packs work
A pack is a set of rules, not a switch that turns compliance on.
Every rule cites its source
Each rule names the instrument and the provision it comes from, so your team can read it against the law as it stands.
Rules install switched off
A pack installs with every rule disabled. Someone in your organisation reads each one and opts it in, and can change its thresholds first.
You remain the duty-holder
Obliwise does not make the legal determination. It raises what your own settings say is required next, and keeps a record of what it raised and when.
Example: the Queensland silica pack
One pack in full, so you can see the shape of the others. Six rules, each with the record that triggers it and the citation behind it.
Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average).
RPE 30-day respirable-hazard health monitoring
A worker logs 30 distinct RPE usage-days on a respirable-hazard task.
Raises: A health-monitoring obligation (registered medical practitioner, baseline plus periodic) and an RPE fit-test renewal. The 30-day threshold is a tenant-tunable default set to your own risk assessment, not a fixed statutory number.
WHS Reg 2011 (Qld) Pt 7.1
Fires on a record
Crystalline-silica exposure-standard exceedance
A hygiene measurement on a silica programme returns above the Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average).
Raises: Health monitoring (spirometry, baseline plus periodic) for the exposed similar-exposure-group members, plus a record-retention obligation.
WHS Reg 2011 (Qld) Pt 7.1
Fires on a record
Silica exposure: control plan + air monitoring
A chemical exposure assessment is created for a respirable-crystalline-silica product.
Raises: A silica control-plan-required obligation and enrolment of the workplace in atmospheric (air) monitoring.
RCS Dust CoP 2022 (Qld)
Fires on a record
RPE fit-test renewal due
An active RPE issuance's next fit-test date falls within the lead window (30 days by default).
Raises: A fit-test renewal obligation. Annual fit-testing is the common baseline, so tune the lead to your programme.
AS/NZS 1715:2009
Scheduled check
Chemical exposure reassessment due
An active exposure assessment's next review date falls within 30 days.
Raises: An exposure-reassessment obligation, so controls are revisited before the review lapses.
WHS Reg 2011 (Qld) Pt 7.1
Scheduled check
Health surveillance recall due
A worker's next health-surveillance date falls within 30 days.
Raises: A health-monitoring reminder. Scheduling only: it reads the recall date, never clinical results; the clinician owns the assessment.
WHS Reg 2011 (Qld) Pt 7.1
Scheduled check
Common questions about this pack
Who regulates crystalline silica exposure in Queensland?
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland administers the workplace health-and-safety duties for respirable crystalline silica in Queensland, under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld).
What is the workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica in Queensland?
Workplace exposure standard 0.05 mg/m³ (8-hour time-weighted average). A result above the standard calls for a review of controls and, in Obliwise, raises a health monitoring duty for the people exposed.
Does Queensland require a silica control plan?
High-risk crystalline silica work is governed by Managing respirable crystalline silica dust Code of Practice 2022 (Qld), which covers the silica control plan and air monitoring. Obligation rules install switched off, and a person turns each one on against their own reading of the current instrument.
How does Obliwise keep these obligations current?
Each rule names the legislative instrument and clause it comes from, and every change to a rule is kept as a new version. A rule tells you what the law requires next and records why. Your organisation remains the duty-holder; Obliwise keeps the record that shows what was raised, when, and what was done about it.
See a pack running against your own records.
Book a working session. We install the QLD pack in a test workspace, switch on one rule with you, and show the obligation being raised with the citation behind it.