Work Health and Safety (Public Notification of Indexed Penalty Amounts) Notifiable Instrument 2025
I, Michael James Duke, acting Chief Executive Officer of Comcare, make the following notifiable instrument.
Dated 23 June 2025
Signed
Michael Duke
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Comcare
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Monetary Penalty Amounts..................................1
6 Repeal - Work Health and Safety (Public Notification of Indexed Penalty Amounts) Notifiable Instrument 2024 1
7 Repeal of this instrument....................................1
Schedule 1-Notice of Monetary Penalty Amounts 2
Table 1 - Monetary Penalty Amounts – Categories 1 to 3...................2
Table 2 - Monetary Penalty Amounts – Tiers A to I.......................3
Table 3 - Monetary Penalty Amounts – WHS Civil Penalty Provisions Tiers 1 to 4....4
1 Name
This instrument is the Work Health and Safety (Public Notification of Indexed Penalty Amounts) Notifiable Instrument 2025.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on 1 July 2025.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under clause 6 of Schedule 4 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) (the Act).
4 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Act:
- category 1 monetary penalty
- category 2 monetary penalty
- category 3 monetary penalty
- regulator
- tier A monetary penalty
- tier B monetary penalty
- tier C monetary penalty
- tier D monetary penalty
- tier E monetary penalty
- tier F monetary penalty
- tier G monetary penalty
- tier H monetary penalty
- tier I monetary penalty
- WHS civil penalty provision tier 1
- WHS civil penalty provision tier 2
- WHS civil penalty provision tier 3
- WHS civil penalty provision tier 4
The following expression used in this instrument is defined in clause 7 of Schedule 4 of the Act:
(q) CPI number
5 Monetary Penalty Amounts
Having taken notice of the CPI number for the March quarter of 2025, in Schedule 1 of this instrument the regulator gives notice of the amount of each monetary penalty calculated under Schedule 4 of the Act.
6 Repeal – Work Health and Safety (Public Notification of Indexation Penalty Amounts) Notifiable Instrument 2024
The whole of Work Health and Safety (Public Notification of Indexed Penalty Amounts) Notifiable Instrument 2024 is repealed.
7 Repeal of this instrument
This instrument is repealed at the start of 1 July 2026.
Schedule 1—Notice of Monetary Penalty Amounts
Table 1
Monetary Penalty Amounts – Categories 1 to 3
Monetary penalties – categories 1 to 3 | ||||
Item | Column 1 Type of penalty | Column 2 An individual who commits an offence as: (a(a) a person conducting a business undertaking; or (b(b) an officer of a person conducting a business undertaking | Column 3 An individual who commits an offence (other than as mentioned in column 2)
| Column 4 A body corporate
|
1 | the category 1 monetary penalty | $3,407,000.00
| $1,703,000.00 | $17,034,000.00 |
2 | the category 2 monetary penalty | $475,000.00 | $237,000.00 | $2,373,000.00 |
3 | the category 3 monetary penalty | $159,000.00 | $79,000.00 | $795,000.00 |
Table 2
Monetary Penalty Amounts – Tiers A to I
Monetary penalties – tiers A to I | |||
Item | Column 1 Kind of penalty | Column 2 An individual
| Column 3 A body corporate
|
1 | the tier A monetary penalty | $158,000.00
| $789,000.00 |
2 | the tier B monetary penalty | $79,000.00 | $397,000.00 |
3 | the tier C monetary penalty | $32,000.00 | $159,000.00 |
4 | the tier D monetary penalty | $16,000.00 | $79,000.00 |
5 | the tier E monetary penalty | $9,500.00 | $48,000.00 |
6 | the tier F monetary penalty | $7,900.00 | $40,000.00 |
7 | the tier G monetary penalty | $5700.00 | $28,000.00 |
8 | the tier H monetary penalty | $3,200.00 | $16,000.00 |
9 | the tier I monetary penalty | $1,900.00 | $9,700.00
|
Table 3
Monetary Penalty Amounts – WHS civil penalty provision tiers 1 to 4
Monetary penalties – tiers 1 to 4 | |||
Item | Column 1 Kind of penalty | Column 2 An individual
| Column 3 A body corporate
|
1 | the WHS civil penalty provision tier 1 | $32,000.00 | $159,000.00 |
2 | the WHS civil penalty provision tier 2 | $16,000.00 | $79,000.00 |
3 | the WHS civil penalty provision tier 3 | $7,900.00 | $40,000.00 |
4 | the WHS civil penalty provision tier 4 | $3,200.00 | $16,000.00 |