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Education, Compliance and Enforcement Measures
Comcare has a range of options as to whether education, compliance assistance, enforcement action - or a combination of these - will be applied in a given situation.
Comcare applies a range of information, education, advice and assistance to encourage better practice through partnerships and collaboration with workers and employers in the jurisdiction. If a duty holder is found to be non-compliant with duties and obligations, a range of enforcement options are available under the OHS Act and others have been endorsed by Comcare. A combination of better practice, compliance and enforcement measures may be applied that are appropriate to the circumstances.
- education
- audits
- inspection
- Comcare-endorsed enforcement option
- letter of warning
- statutory enforcement options
- Improvement Notice
- Prohibition Notice
- written request for particulars of action taken or proposed
- public inquiry
- report to the Minister
- civil remedies and sanctions
- declaration of contravention and pecuniary penalty
- injunction
- remedial order
- enforceable undertaking
- criminal prosecution.
For further information about better practice and compliance activities refer to schedule 1. For further information about enforcement options available under the OHS Act refer to schedule 2.