Evaluating Victoria's Decision on National Work Health and Safety Laws

This essay evaluates the statement 'Victoria was wise to not adopt the national work, health and safety laws.' It examines Victoria's decision to not adopt the harmonized WHS legislation, driven by political factors. The essay explores the arguments for and against this decision, considering the perspectives of various stakeholders such as employer associations and trade unions. It also analyzes the impact of Victoria's independent approach to WHS legislation, comparing it with the national model. The essay discusses the legal authorities of the Victorian government, the role of political parties, and the importance of harmonisation versus best practices. It concludes by assessing whether Victoria's decision was beneficial, considering costs, safety improvements, and the overall effectiveness of the state's OHS legislation. The references include books, journals, and online resources related to the topic.

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Victoria was wise to not adopt the national work, health and safety laws
The legal authorities of the Victorian government has made the principle that qualified
committed to law as existing occupational health and safety act. This is the act that replace this
with national model work of Health and Safety Bill (Phelan, Hurley and Bush, 2019 ). In
addition to this, Victoria supports the principle of harmonisation but the main goal of the
enterprise is to harmonise around the best practices. Harmonisation is mainly dependent over
very low common denominator that leads to reduction in risk within the public policy.
The statement as Victoria's government defines the WHS act and this regulation needs
not to be enacted within the victoria's by the 2013 1st January. Henceforth, victoria's will not
harmonise the occupational health and safety as per the current model due to varied changes that
needs to take the victoria's backwards, imposed ultimately and excessive unjustified cost on
victorian businesses without looking over the corresponding outcomes of safet improvements.
Thus, legislation of the victoria's authority used as the framework for national laws with
workforce victoria's that mainly initaitives to develop model regulation and national corde of
ptactices.
This can be stated that it was the wise decision of the Victoria's to frame their own
legislation and apply their own principles. There are major three political parties under victora
such as Libral party, National party and the Autralian labor party (Coomber and Lubman, 2019).
Herein, the locl authoities mainly takes the initiatives that administers the elected councils and
they are mainly responsible to undertake the range of the services that is inclusive of the waste
management, service in regatds to community, to build the effective controls, regulations of the
Traffic and some community services. In ddition to this, the harmonisation of the OHS laws and
legislation within the Australia is mainly designed ti offer the all Territoies and states the
consistent set of the workplace safety and health.
In the jurdiction of the WHS the approval of the legislation will be given by the code of
practices. On the other hand, victoria's legal authorities has creates the 7 codes of practices
under occupational health and safety act 1985. This in relation to the safety of workplace, such as
plant, demolition and varied number of the hazardeous substances. Therefore, the Australian
state of Victoria's has enforced the approaches to the OHS legilation. In addition to this, victorian
legal authorities that concluding the cost of adopting the National WHS outweigh the benfits

amd took the decison to not to adopt the new harmonised legislation (History of adoption law in
Victoria, 2020).
In addition to this, it can be stated that this comparision has been outlined as a effective
guidance to support the enterprise to understand the differences and similarities among the model
of WHS and Victoria's OHS law. This do not needs to be used as the source on the required sets
of the law. However, the individual circumtances of the enterprise may need varied emphaises.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Phelan, K., Hurley, J. and Bush, J., 2019. Land-use planning’s role in urban forest strategies:
Recent local government approaches in Australia. Urban Policy and Research. 37(2).
pp.215-226.
Coomber, K. and Lubman, D.I., 2019. Aggression and violence at ambulance attendances where
alcohol, illicit and/or pharmaceutical drugs were recorded: A 5-year study of ambulance
records in Victoria, Australia. Drug and alcohol dependence. 205. p.107685.
Online
History of adoption law in Victoria. 2020. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/content/2-history-adoption-law-victoria>
Phelan, Hurley and Bush, 2019 Coomber and Lubman, 2019 History of adoption law in Victoria,
2020
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