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Queensland · civil construction · obligations register

Safety work that shows its working.

An obligations register built against your operations and watched for you, with a citation on every line so you can check us. Built by Tim Praeger, a senior WHS advisor in Australian civil construction, because the versions on site were spreadsheets nobody could check.

Photograph: Tim Praeger

What a register looks like

Most of what changed this month does not reach you. This is the part that does.

Regulatory change is mostly noise. The work is not finding the updates, it is deciding which ones actually reach your business. The Register makes that call, and shows you the reasoning. These are five of the thirty-one lines from a civil contractor's register in Queensland.

Legal obligations register · civil contractor, Queensland 31 obligations · built 26 Aug 2026 · every line verified against the authoritative full text
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)s 19 · QLD-WHSA-019
verified 28 Jul 2026

Primary duty of care

Ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of your workers and of anyone else who could be put at risk by your work. This includes providing and maintaining safe systems of work, safe plant and structures, and the information, training, instruction and supervision needed to protect people from the risks your work creates.

WHS policy and management system, current and issuedRisk register showing work-created risks to workers and to othersTraining and competency records for the work being performed
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)s 38 · QLD-WHSA-038
verified 28 Jul 2026

Duty to notify of notifiable incidents

Notify the regulator immediately after becoming aware that a notifiable incident has occurred, by the fastest possible means, by telephone or in writing. If notifying by phone and the regulator requires it, provide written notice within 48 hours.

Incident notification procedure naming the regulator and contact routeNotification records with timestamps for any notifiable incident
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)s 47 · QLD-WHSA-047
verified 28 Jul 2026

Duty to consult workers

Consult, so far as is reasonably practicable, with workers who are or are likely to be directly affected by a work health and safety matter. If agreed consultation procedures exist, follow them.

Agreed consultation procedureToolbox and pre-start records showing worker input, not just attendance
Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)s 34 · QLD-WHSR-034
verified 28 Jul 2026 · applies because: excavation, services strike

Duty to identify hazards

Identify reasonably foreseeable hazards that could give rise to risks to health and safety. For excavation near services this means identifying the services themselves as a hazard before the work is planned, not on the day.

Hazard identification record for the specific work areaService search results forming part of the hazard identification
Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)s 35 · QLD-WHSR-035
verified 28 Jul 2026 · applies because: excavation, overhead powerlines

Management of risk

Eliminate risks so far as is reasonably practicable; if elimination is not reasonably practicable, minimise them so far as is reasonably practicable. Relocating or de-energising a service is elimination; working near a live one is minimisation and must be justified.

Documented consideration of elimination before minimisationRecords of de-energisation or diversion requests made to the asset owner
Source: legislation.qld.gov.au, authoritative full text Verityline Register · lines 1, 4, 6, 8 and 9 of 31

A change is material, or it is wording

Every accepted change gets classified, and a wording-only call is refused in code unless the reviewer records the practice that keeps you compliant. That is the difference between telling you seventeen things changed and telling you sixteen need nothing from you.

Every line carries its source

No obligation appears without a citation you can follow back to the instrument. Where a source sits behind a paywall we say so on the line, rather than quietly leaving it out.

A formwork trench with conduits and reinforcement, running away to a green field under cloud

Verityline Register

Stop watching the regulators. We will tell you when something reaches you.

We hold the register of what applies to your business and we watch the sources. When something moves, you get told what changed, whether it actually reaches you, and what to do about it. You maintain nothing.

Ask what we would watch for you Licensed annually. Year one carries the build, so the first conversation is a scoping one.

Free, and staying free

Thirteen tools that do one job each, and show their working.

Open the tools

The same standard of work as the paid side, given away. No signup, nothing stored on our side, and each one cites what it leans on and hands the call back to you.

Two workers in hi-vis walk a grass batter towards an earthworks formation where plant is working under a grey sky

The practice

Work that needs a person, not a tool.

Investigations, audits and Register scoping run as direct engagements with one senior WHS advisor, not a panel.

Getting started

Tell us what you are dealing with.

Send a paragraph on the situation and you will have an approach and a quote back within two business days.

An incident to investigate

Something has happened, or an investigation has been run and you want an independent read on it.

Email about an investigation

An audit, or a readiness gap

Certification coming, a program that has drifted, or a screen that came back suspiciously high.

Email about an audit

An obligations register

You need to know which rules reach your business, and to be able to show how you know.

Email about the Register