Report unsafe work in Queensland: WHSQ inspector

Start on site

Sort it out on site where you can. Queensland’s inspector route expects that you’ve already tried to settle the matter with the business, and the regulator will ask what you tried. A written report helps here. Date, place, photo and the name of the person you told. That trail is also what you read out when you ring.

Going to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland

To ask for an inspector, phone Workplace Health and Safety Queensland on the number in the table below. You’ll be asked for details of the issue and the business or undertaking, with its ABN if you have it. You’ll also give contact details for the parties, and your role. Having those to hand makes the call short. The regulator’s page limits who can ask to the parties to the issue.

Your name and what happens to it

Be clear about what this route is. It is built around parties to an issue who give their contact details. So it isn’t a way to raise a concern without your name on it. If naming yourself is the problem, talk to your health and safety representative or union before you ring. Ask the regulator what other routes it has.

When someone has been hurt

Hazards and incidents travel different roads. A death, a serious injury or a dangerous incident is notified to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland straight away, by phone, online or by email. Our Queensland notifiable incidents page has the steps, and the last row below shows the regulator’s own text.

Where Haznote fits

For a Queensland job, Haznote gives you the trail the inspector route asks about. The worker’s report, the manager’s reply and the time between them all sit in one list. It doesn’t ring the regulator or request an inspector. Anonymous reporting is a site setting, off by default and best-effort.