Comcare publishes an indexed list of its files every six months, in line with the Senate Order.
Background
In 1994, the Senate agreed to a motion by Senator Brian Harradine requiring all Australian Government agencies and statutory authorities to produce an indexed list of their files every six months for tabling before parliament.
The original Senate Order was amended in 1998 and now requires each department and agency to list the files on their website.
The production and availability of these lists is intended to make the operations of government more transparent and accessible. It can also assist with freedom of information requests.
Agency files lists
NOTE: Any title words that would identify an organisation or person have been replaced with '***'
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1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025
Table 14: Indexed List of Files Created 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025 File reference number File title 2025/2076
WHS REGULATION - Policy - DEWR queries on WHS Act application to PALM scheme
2025/2068
WHS REGULATION - Policy - issue resolution agreements and provision of inspector reports to unions
2025/1428
WHS REGULATION - Policy - UFUA jurisdiction query
1 July 2024 to 31 December 2024
Table 13: Indexed List of Files Created 1 July 2024 to 31 December 2024 File reference number File title 2024/2495
WHS REGULATION - Policy - 220 Defence exemption HMAS Perth
2024/2404
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Application of corresponding WHS laws to Defence activities
2024/2405
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Application of WHS Act to US Government activities
2024/2406
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Creation of Explosives Regulator
2024/2476
WHS REGULATION - Policy - HMAS Stuart Defence exemption request
2024/2431
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Home Affairs RHIB r220 exemption
2024/2515
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Notice of monetary penalties
2024/2815
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Offshore Energy regulation
2024/2505
WHS REGULATION - Policy - OSH(MI) Act guidance
2024/2503
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Psychosocial HSR scenario guidance
2024/2618
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of Codes of Practice Dec 24 - April 25
2024/2572
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of Regulatory Guides
2024/2500
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of WHS Act for ROG e-learning
2024/1625
WHS REGULATION - Reporting - Risk and Analysis (R&A) 2024-25 Intelligence Products
2024/2473
WHS REGULATION - Stakeholder Engagement - NT Worksafe HRW licence age query
2024/2289
SRC COMMISSION MANAGEMENT - Policy - 2024 - SRC Act review
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 January 2024 to 30 June 2024
Table 12: Indexed List of Files Created 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2024 File reference number File title 2024/126 SRC REGULATION - Legislation - Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 - Guide for arranging rehabilitation assessments and requiring examinations
2024/176
SRC REGULATION - Legislation - Online Annotated SRC Act version 12.04 (December 2023) 2024/1272
SRC REGULATION - Legislation - Online Annotated SRC Act version 12.05 (May 2024) 2024/526
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of WHS (Operation Sovereign Borders) Declaration 2013 2024/989
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Asbestos overseas
2024/991
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Contractor Management webinar 2024/994
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Covid guidance 2024/1069
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Defence Plant Licence 2024/1074
WHS REGULATION - Policy - DFAT enquiry about HRW licence exemption 2024/1089
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Fair work amendment bill 2024/1090
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Gig economy research 2024/1080
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Health monitoring query reg 435 436 2024/1070
WHS REGULATION - Policy - high risk work HRW Defence age exemption 2024/1083
WHS REGULATION - Policy - HSR Handbook review 2024/1097
WHS REGULATION - Policy - NBN contractor enquiry 2024/1104
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Norfolk regulation and HRW 2024/1073
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Query about Defence SDS requirements 2024/1072
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Query about possible s12D declaration by Defence about explosives 2024/1081
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Registered training Organisation query about trainers qualifications 2024/1076
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Repeal of exemptions 2024/371
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS - Advice - DEWR - SRC Act Review Taskforce 2024/790
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS - Advice - Ministerial Statement of Expectations and Statement of Intent 2024 2024/690
SRC REGULATION - Legislation - Fair Work (Closing Loopholes) Bill - section 57 determinations No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 July 2023 to 31 December 2023
Table 11: Indexed List of Files Created 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2023 File reference number File Title 2023/3311 WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** Observatory exemption No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023
Table 10: Indexed List of Files Created 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023 File reference number File Title 2023/1375 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Remote and isolated work guide (new) 2023/1003 WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** and Comcare 2023/1441 WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** Exemption Enquiry - *** 2023/1332 WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** - High Risk *** 2023/1360 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Intersection between WHS and *** 2023/1344 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Regulatory Policy Review of HSR Handbook 2023/451 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of *** Declaration 2023/382 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Sunsetting Exemptions 2023/41 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) at the Workplace 2023/1638 WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** 2023/1305 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT - Policy - Scheme Policy Position on rehabilitation activities (assessment and program) No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 July 2022 to 31 December 2022
Table 9: Indexed list of files from 1 July to 31 December 2022 File reference number File Title 2022/2841
WHS REGULATION - Policy - ***
2022/3670
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Guidance - Working from Home
2022/2879
WHS REGULATION - Policy - MOU - ***
2022/3842
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Regulatory Guide Review 2022
2022/3794 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Regulatory Policy WHS Laws Reform Program documents 2022/2718 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of ***Due Diligence Presentation 2022/3128 WHS REGULATION - Policy - Submission to Inquiry - Development of Parliamentary Codes of Conduct No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 January 2022 to 30 June 2022
Table 8: Indexed list of files from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2022 File reference number File Title Potential Request for Access 2022/364
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Amendments to the WHS Act - Jenkins Review Recommendations
Yes
2022/411
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Guidance to support psychological health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers
Yes
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 July 2021 to 31 December 2021
Table 7: Indexed list of files from 1 July to 31 December 2021 File reference number File Title 2021/9475
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Rehabilitation reconsiderations
2021/8051
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Requests to Regulatory Policy for review of regulated entities WHS materials
2021/6440
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of the model WHS laws recommendations - progress
2021/10917
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Workload Management - Information and Advice to *****
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021
Table 6: Indexed list of files from 1 January to 30 June 2021 File reference number File Title 2021/274
SRC COMMISSION MANAGEMENT - Policy - Freedom of Information
2021/417
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Jurisdictional Enquiry - *** - Hazardous Chemicals and Dangerous Goods - Corresponding WHS Law
2021/863
CLAIMS MANAGEMENT - Policy - Home based work claims
2021/2910
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Worker Duties - Section 28
2021/2912
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Persons Assisting HSRs under Section 68(g)
2021/2981
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Psychosocial Regulation
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 July 2020 to 31 December 2020
Table 5: Indexed list of files from 1 July to 31 December 2020 File reference number File Title 2020/3463
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Working from home - COVID-19
2020/2376
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
2020/9808
SRC REGULATION - Legislation - Seafarers' deemed disease review 2020
2020/9095
WHS REGULATION - Policy - GHS Exemption - delayed transition to GHS Revision 7 2020
2020/2705
WHS REGULATION - Policy - 2012 Original - *** High Risk Diving Work Standard
2020/2706
WHS REGULATION - Policy - 2013-2014 Review - *** High Risk Diving Work Standard
2020/2707
WHS REGULATION - Policy - 2017-2020 Review - *** High Risk Diving Work Standard
2020/3217
WHS REGULATION - Policy - COVID-19 Enquiries
2020/4656
WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** - Exemption - Work on Energised Electrical Equipment
2020/5485
WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** - Exemption from Asbestos Qualifications -Reg 460(1) - WITHDRAWN
2020/5534
WHS REGULATION - Policy - HWSA Psychological Health Community of Practice
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020
Table 4: Indexed list of files from 1 January to 30 June 2020 File reference number File Title 2020/801
SRC COMMISSION MANAGEMENT - Policy - Commission approach to legislative breaches
2020/2376
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
2020/472
SRC REGULATION - Policy - SRC Act coverage in the bushfire emergency
2020/3274
WHS REGULATION - Policy - HWSA (Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities) - Comcare's position
2020/5534
WHS REGULATION - Policy - HWSA Psychological Health Community of Practice
No Seacare Authority files have been identified.
1 July 2019 to 31 December 2019
Table 3: Indexed list of files from 1 July to 31 December 2019 File reference number File Title 2019/6850
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Australian Standards 45001 and 45002
2019/6866
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of the General Construction Induction (White Card)
2019/7102
WHS REGULATION - Policy - ***
2019/7108
WHS REGULATION - Policy - *** - fuel bladders on ***
2019/7863
CLAIMS MANAGEMENT - Policy - Implied Undertaking
No Seacare Authority files were created in this period.
1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019
Table 2: Indexed list of files from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019. File reference number File Title 2018/8229
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Centrelink recovery notices to claims made under the SRC Act – 2018
2018/10734
WHS REGULATION - Policy - ***- Extension to exception under r419 - *** 2018
2018/11436
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Declarations Under the OHS ACT 1991
2019/781
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Commonwealth Review of model Codes of Practice
2019/1560
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) frameworks
2019/2702
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Exemptions Regulatory Guides
2019/2729
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Former exemption registration documents
2019/2730
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Current register
2019/2735
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Exemptions application forms
No Seacare Authority files were created in this period
No files have been identified as potential information access requests
1 January 2018 to 30 June 2018
Table 1: Indexed list of files from 1 January to 30 June 2018. File reference number File Title 2018/1420
WHS REGULATION - Policy - XXX XXX Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
2018/1642
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Other infringement notice schemes
2018/1780
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Laws
2018/3187
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Exemption application - XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX transport package
2018/3188
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Exemption application - XXX - asbestos waste disposal
2018/3547
SRC REGULATION - Policy - Effects of s48 on Rehabilitation
2018/3740
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Review of WHS in Construction Industry
2018/4925
WHS REGULATION - Policy - XXX - request for exemption - non-compliant Safety Data Sheets for XXX
2018/5528
WHS REGULATION - Policy - Senate Inquiry into the framework surrounding the prevention, investigation and prosecution of industrial deaths in Australia
2018/6540
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT - Policy - Heads of Workers Compensation - Nationally Consistent Approval Framework Review 2018
No Seacare Authority files were created in this period.