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No published Australian national cost for lapsed contractor licence, prequalification or accreditation in construction
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No published Australian national cost for lapsed contractor licence, prequalification or accreditation in construction: no defensible figure has been published (Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner, 2025; Australia; low confidence).
What it is. None - national sources count accredited companies and audit findings; licence fines and prequalification sanctions found are single state cases or carry no dollar amount.
Sample. Search terms used: WHS prosecutions average fine Safe Work Australia; comparative performance monitoring fines per conviction; Federal Safety Commissioner annual data accreditation suspended revoked; Key WHS statistics median compensation construction; national prequalification system suspension cancellation; unlicensed contractor penalty. A frequency exists, but it is not a cost: 606 companies held Federal Safety Commissioner accreditation at the end of 2024, 48 were newly accredited, and 3,319 corrective action reports were raised in 657 audits (a stated compliance rate of 80.9%); the report states no count of suspensions or cancellations. Not opened because the page refused automated access (403): the Austroads national prequalification page and the South Australian DIT prequalification guidelines.
What it is not. Recorded as none on purpose. Losing accreditation or prequalification costs the work it gates, and no national source read prices that. Licence fines are set and published state by state, and the examples found are individual cases. The source of record measures audit findings, not money.
Where it came from
- Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner (2025), Federal Safety Commissioner Annual Data Report 2024Accreditation Scheme and Scheme Audits sections (Tables 1 and 6 to 12); Workers' Compensation Premium Rates Over Time (Table 23) · source record
Considered and set aside
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations: Reviews the accreditation scheme, its powers and cost recovery; no fine or revenue lost for a lapsed accreditation.
- Department of Transport and Main Roads (Queensland): Queensland prequalification manual: suspension, downgrade or cancellation after a show cause notice, with no dollar amount and no cost of lost work.
- Queensland Building and Construction Commission: Queensland only: a licensee fined AU$6,500 plus AU$11,000 restitution for work outside the licence class; one case from 2021.
- Labour Hire Authority (Victoria): Victoria only: AU$759,674 in total penalties on five companies and three directors for unlicensed labour hire; one case and a labour hire licence, not a contractor licence.
- Safe Work Australia: National average fine per WHS prosecution is not split by licence or accreditation breach.
- Safe Work Australia: No field for the kind of failure; licensing and accreditation lapses cannot be isolated.
- Safe Work Australia: National WHS fines and notices only; nothing on contractor licensing or prequalification.
- National Environmental Protection Agency: Fines for breaching environmental approval conditions are a site matter and do not touch a company's licence or prequalification status.