Annual report WHS content requirements

Under the WHS Act, public authorities and non-corporate Commonwealth entities must include certain WHS information in their annual reports.

Non-corporate Commonwealth entities and public authorities must include information on the following WHS matters in their annual reports:

• initiatives taken during the year to ensure the health, safety and welfare of workers
• health and safety outcomes (including the impact on injury rates of workers) of those or previous initiatives
• data on notifiable incidents for the year
• any WHS investigations conducted by Comcare that year in relation to the businesses or undertakings of the entity, including details of all enforcement notices (improvement notices, prohibition notices and non-disturbance notices) given under Part 10 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act)
• anything else as required by guidelines approved by the Parliament’s Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audits.

These requirements are set out in Schedule 2, Part 4 of the WHS Act.

Other annual reporting requirements

More annual reporting requirements are set out in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 (PGPA Rule) and other legislation. For information on those requirements see:

• non-corporate Commonwealth entities – RMG 135: Annual report content requirements
• corporate Commonwealth entities – RMG 136: Annual report content requirements