The enableHR WHS document library has been reviewed against current WHS and OHS laws in each state and territory, Safe Work Australia codes of practice, regulator guidance and AS/NZS ISO 45001:2018. It reflects requirements current as at October 2026. As part of this review, a number of recommendations have been made.
Documents you should update
Update Now
We advise you to update your documents listed below as soon as you are able to:
- Emergency and First Aid Procedure
- Emergency Plan (was Emergency Management Plan)
- External Communication Procedure
- Hazardous Chemicals Procedure (If applicable)
- Incident Management Procedure
- Manager WHS Induction
- Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Policy (was Psychological Health and Wellbeing Policy)
- Plant and Equipment Guideline
- Preventing & Responding to Harmful Behaviours Procedure (was Preventing & Responding to Workplace Bullying Procedure)
- Risk Management Procedure
- Risk Register (workflow)
- Safe Work Method Statement Template (If applicable)
- Senior Manager WHS Induction
- Sexual Harassment Prevention Plan (Queensland) (If applicable)
- Volunteer Management Plan (If applicable)
- Volunteer Management Procedure (If applicable)
Update at your next review
At your next scheduled review, or within the next 12 months, we advise you update the following list of documents:
- Bomb Threat Checklist
- Consultation Procedure
- Contractor Management Procedure
- Contractor Site WHS Observation Checklist
- Contractor WHS Evaluation
- Contractor WHS Induction
- Ergonomics Management Procedure
- Induction & Training Procedure
- Internal Audit Report Template
- Issue Resolution Procedure
- Legal & Other Requirements Guidelines
- Management of Change Procedure (new)
- Management Review Guidelines
- Manual Tasks Procedure
- Monitoring and Measurement Procedure
- Safe Work Procedure Template
- Training Needs Analysis
- Training Plan
- Visitor WHS Induction (Visitor WHS Information)
- WHS Audit Schedule
- WHS Dashboard Report
- WHS Management System Audit Procedure
- WHS Management System Implementation Procedure
- WHS Pre-Purchase Guidelines
- Work Health and Safety Management Plan, and WHS Objectives and Targets
- Worker WHS Induction
- Workplace Health and Safety Policy
- Workplace Health and Safety Responsibility Statement
- Workplace Inspection Checklist – Office
- Workstation Ergonomics Assessment
Optional Updates
Updates have also been made to the following documents:
- Safety Talks Guideline
- Safety Talks Plan
- Offender Description Form
Archive
You will need to archive the following documents:
- Psychological Health at Work Guidelines. (Covered by the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Policy).
Key actions for customers
These are the actions you need to take in addition to creating new documents. The law requires the outcome, not just the template.
All customers: replace the "update now" documents, archive the superseded versions (including the Psychological Health at Work Guidelines and the old Preventing & Responding to Workplace Bullying Procedure), and update the Document Control Register.
All customers: manage psychosocial risks. Identify psychosocial hazards in consultation with workers and any health and safety representatives, assess the risks, control them using the hierarchy of control measures, and record them in the Risk Register.
All customers: update incident notification arrangements. Make sure managers know how to notify the regulator in each state or territory the business operates in, have the current contact details, and check the regulator's guidance on what is notifiable.
All customers: check the Emergency Plan. Review it against the updated template, which is aligned with regulation 43 of the Work Health and Safety Regulations (emergency plans), and make sure it is tested and workers are trained in it.
All customers: consult workers. Consult workers, and any health and safety representatives, on the updated documents that affect them, as the WHS and OHS laws require.
Customers operating in Queensland: prepare and implement a written prevention plan for any identified risk of sexual harassment or sex or gender-based harassment, using the Sexual Harassment Prevention Plan template. Prepare it in consultation with workers and any health and safety representatives, and record that consultation in the plan. Make sure workers know about it and can access it, and review it after a report, when a health and safety representative or health and safety committee asks, and every three years.
Customers that use or store hazardous chemicals: before 1 December 2026, check their chemicals against the new workplace exposure limits, make sure every safety data sheet is current, arrange air monitoring where it is uncertain whether a limit could be exceeded, and eliminate or, if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise exposure to non-threshold genotoxic carcinogens, which no longer have an exposure limit.
Customers doing high risk construction work: use the updated SWMS template, which is aligned with the legislated SWMS content requirements.
Customers that engage volunteers: replace the Volunteer Management Plan and Procedure, which have been updated to the current titles of the WHS and OHS Acts and current requirements.
How do I update or create new documents?
If you already use our WHS module and just want to create the updated documents listed above, we recommend that you follow our instructions under Documents: Replace or create a new version of a document from a template.
If there are only a few new documents you want to create, you can create the documents directly from underneath the 'Our WHS Resources' tabs. This article will show you which tab the documents usually sit under: WHS Tab: Our WHS Documents .
Don't forget to add any new documents you create to the Document Control Register.
Make sure you read through the Key actions for customers listed above, it includes the actions you need to take in addition to creating new documents. The law requires the outcome, not just the template.
What do I do if I want to update or create new documents, but have some structured guidance?
If you haven't set up your WHS module before, want some additional guidance or haven't created many of the documents listed above, we recommend you start by completing our 'Setting up Workplace Health and Safety Policies and Procedures' Checklist, located under the 'Lead Safety' Workflow. This will take you through everything that you need to set up for WHS in your account step-by-step, with additional info and helpful prompts along the way, it will also save the documents you create to the correct tab under the 'Our WHS Documents' tab.
If you want more detail on these updates, you can contact our Support Team and request a copy of the report 'enableHR - WHS Compliance Update 2026'.