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No published Australian national cost for licence, ticket or induction breaches in construction
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No published Australian national cost for licence, ticket or induction breaches in construction: no defensible figure has been published (Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner, 2025; Australia; low confidence).
What it is. None - national fine and claim statistics are not split by licence, ticket or induction breach, and the one licence-breach fine found is a single Queensland case.
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; unlicensed high risk work licence fine court average. A frequency exists, but it is not a cost: in the Federal Safety Commissioner's 2024 audits the highest corrective action issue rate for accredited companies was 52% (40 reports in 77 tests) for temporary structures being installed by a competent person, and for non-accredited applicants 43% for training of managers and supervisors in WHS.
What it is not. Recorded as none on purpose. The national fine data are real but are not split by the kind of breach, and the only licence-breach fine amounts found are single state court reports. The source of record is the most relevant national source read; it 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
- Safe Work Australia: National average fine AU$116,979 per prosecution in 2024 (317 prosecutions, 47% in construction), but across every kind of WHS breach and every industry; not attributable to licences, tickets or inductions.
- Safe Work Australia: The repository records the Act and regulation section cited as free text and no field for the kind of failure, so a licence or induction average cannot be read without coding cases by hand.
- Safe Work Australia: National fines ordered (AU$26,050 thousand in 2021-22 over 301 convictions, orders or agreements) are not split by breach type or industry.
- Safe Work Australia: Construction median compensation of AU$18,500 per serious claim is a cost per injury of any cause; the claims data does not record whether a missing ticket or licence was the cause.
- Safe Work Australia: Regulations 39 (training and instruction) and 81 (high risk work licence) set the duties, but offences carry tiers, not dollar amounts, and the model is not itself in force.
- Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor (Queensland): One Queensland case: a worker fined AU$3,500 against a AU$20,000 maximum for operating a forklift without the right licence class. State only, one case.
- Ehsan Gharaie (RMIT University), The Conversation: Names inadequate supervision (18 of 81 plant deaths) among underlying causes; an author summary with no cost figure.
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations: Reviews the accreditation scheme and quotes premium reductions; contains no fine or penalty for tickets or inductions.
- Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner: Counts corrective action reports on mobile plant and scaffolding systems of work (competence, training); counts only, no money.
- RMIT University for SafeWork NSW: New South Wales study naming operator competency and licensing among crane incident factors; keyword scan found no cost or fine amounts.