Safe Work Australia, the nation's new peak OHS and workers' compensation body (which replaced the ASCC), held its inaugural meeting in Sydney on 10 June 2009, chaired by Mr Tom Phillips AM.
The inaugural meeting focused on the development of model OHS legislation with the Council noting the proposed structure and content of the model OHS Act as agreed by Workplace Relations Ministers' Council (WRMC). The Council directed the Strategic Issues Group to immediately progress this important work.
The Council noted that an exposure draft of the model OHS legislation is now scheduled to be released in September 2009 and the draft model legislation is due to be submitted to WRMC for agreement by the end of 2009.
Click here to view the Media Release regarding this meeting.
Click here to view the Communique from this meeting.
11 June 2009