Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Demolition contractors: workers compensation requirements in Western Australia

Statutory cover for injury to workers, arranged through each state or territory scheme rather than on the open market.

Data as at

Verified for Western Australia

  • Licence liability condition: Yes. The demolition licence application requires details of both workers compensation insurance and public liability insurance — policy number and expiry date for each. Whether the policy must name demolition in its scope, as Queensland and New South Wales require, was not established. WA · effective 2022-03-31 Government of Western Australia · 2026-08-25
  • Licence evidence required: Policy numbers and expiry dates for workers compensation and public liability, at application. WA · effective 2022-03-31 Government of Western Australia · 2026-08-25
  • Licensing body: WorkSafe WA, under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA), which became operational on 31 March 2022 when Western Australia adopted its version of the model laws. WA · effective 2022-03-31 Government of Western Australia · 2026-08-25

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

What this cover costs

This site publishes no cost benchmark for this cover. A benchmark needs a real sample of documents, and none is published until the sample is large enough to compute a median honestly. A benchmark from a handful of policies is a guess with a decimal point.

Sources