Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Security guards: 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: No insurance condition. Insurance appears three times across the Security and Related Activities (Control) Act 1996 and all three are the reverse of a condition — they exempt bodies authorised under the Commonwealth Insurance Act 1973 from needing an inquiry agent licence while acting in the ordinary course of that business. Insured, indemnity and indemnify appear not at all. The Security and Related Activities (Control) Regulations 1997 return zero on all four terms across the complete instrument. WA · effective 2026-08-25 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: None. No insurance obligation exists in the Act or the Regulations for evidence to attach to, and nothing links lapse to suspension because there is nothing to lapse. WA · effective 2026-08-25 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: The Commissioner of Police, through WA Police Licensing Enforcement Division, licenses the security industry under the Security and Related Activities (Control) Act 1996. Western Australia runs eight separate licence classes rather than one catch-all: security agent, security officer, security consultant, security installer, security bodyguard, inquiry agent, crowd control agent and crowd controller. The security agent class sits above the others — it is the person who supplies the services of officers, consultants, installers or bodyguards, so the firm licence and the individual licence are different things. WA · effective 2026-08-25 Western Australia Government · 2026-08-24

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.

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