You must provide WorkSafe with 24 hours notice of work that is particularly hazardous.

Notification of particular hazardous work 

The Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995(external link) require employers as well as the person who controls a place of work to provide at least 24 hours notice to WorkSafe of particularly hazardous work.

Notifications of hazardous work assist WorkSafe's workplace health and safety services to plan workplace visits to promote the prevention of harm to all persons at, or in the vicinity of, a place of work.

Complete the online notification form(external link)

Note: It is no longer possible to notify us via emailed or posted PDF forms. The online notification form has been updated to reflect all the particular hazardous works that must be notifed to us. 

What is particular hazardous work?

Particular hazardous work includes:

• Construction work with a risk of falling 5 metres or more (see exclusions below)
  • Exclusions:
    • work in connection with a residential building up to and including 2 full storeys
    • work on overhead telecommunications lines and overhead electric power lines
    • work carried out from ladder only
    • maintenance and repair work of a minor or routine nature.
• Erecting or dismantling scaffolding with a risk of falling 5 metres or more
• Logging or tree felling undertaken for commercial purposes
• Use of a lifting appliance where the appliance has to lift a mass of 500 kilogrammes or more a vertical distance of 5 metres or more (see exclusions below)
  • Exclusions:
    • work using an excavator
    • work using a forklift, or
    • work using a self-propelled mobile crane
• Work in any drive, excavation, or heading in which any person is required to work with a ground cover overhead
• Work in any excavation in which any face has a vertical height of more than 5 metres and an average slope steeper than a ratio of 1 horizontal to 2 vertical
• Work in any pit, shaft, trench, or other excavation in which any person is required to work in a space more than 1.5 metres deep and having a depth greater than the horizontal width at the top
• Work involving the use of explosives, or storage of explosives for use at the worksite
• Construction Diving Work in which a person breathes compressed air, or a respiratory medium other than air (diving)
• Work in which a person breathes compressed air, or a respiratory medium other than air (not diving)