Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT 2011 - SECT 33

33 Failure to comply with health and safety duty—category 3

A person commits a
"category 3 offence" if—

(a) the person has a health and safety duty; and

(b) the person fails to comply with that duty.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an offence committed by an individual, other than as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking—500 penalty units; or

(b) for an offence committed by an individual as a person conducting a business or undertaking or as an officer of a person conducting a business or undertaking—1,000 penalty units; or

(c) for an offence committed by a body corporate—5,000 penalty units.

Note—

See also the note to section 31 (1) .