No published Australian national cost for a lapsed permit, traffic management plan, environmental condition or asbestos register on a construction site

What it is. None - the one national money series found, EPBC Act infringement notices, is a statutory penalty (60 penalty units) and not a measured cost, and the national fine statistics are not split by kind of breach.

Sample. National EPA register of paid infringement notices (entries dated 2025, re-added by the reviewer): 32 notices in 21 entries, AU$628,500 in all, a mean of AU$19,640.63 per notice. Every one of the 32 notices is either AU$18,780 (5) or AU$19,800 (27), which is 60 penalty units at an implied unit value of AU$313 and AU$330; 2026 entries show AU$19,800 and AU$21,840 (unit value AU$364). The mean therefore restates the penalty unit rate in force on each notice date and measures no cost; it was a figure in the first draft of this record and was removed at review. Search terms used: WHS prosecutions average fine Safe Work Australia; comparative performance monitoring fines per conviction; Federal Safety Commissioner annual data; Key WHS statistics median compensation construction.

What it is not. Recorded as none on purpose. The EPBC notice is a fixed statutory amount, so averaging it measures the penalty unit value and not what a breach costs anyone. It also covers one federal Act (EPBC approval conditions) and not permits to work, traffic management plans, state environmental licences or asbestos registers; most notices on the register are for late or missing compliance reports and management plans, and the notice goes to the approval holder or the third party carrying out the action, who is often an owner or developer and not a contractor. A fine only: the stop-work, rectification and clean-up costs that follow a breach are not in it.

Where it came from

• National Environmental Protection Agency (2026), Infringement notices and register of paid infringement notices
  Penalties paragraph and "Register of paid infringement notices", entries dated January to December 2025 (21 entries) and 2026 to 22 October · source record

Considered and set aside

• Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor (Queensland): Queensland only and one case: a painter fined AU$3,000 against a AU$153,600 maximum for spraying an asbestos roof. Shows asbestos-related site breaches are prosecuted, but a state-only single case cannot fill the national cell.
• Safe Work Australia: Regulation 425 requires an asbestos register and carries a tier G monetary penalty, but the model regulations give no dollar amount, are not themselves in force, and so give the asbestos register part of the site cause no figure.
• Safe Work Australia: National average fine of AU$116,979 per prosecution (2024) covers every WHS breach and cannot be attributed to permits, traffic management, environment or asbestos.
• Safe Work Australia: No field for the kind of failure; a permit, traffic plan or asbestos register breach cannot be isolated.
• Safe Work Australia: 5,700 prohibition notices and AU$26,050 thousand in court fines nationally in 2021-22, none split by kind of breach or industry.
• Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner: Counts 249 road or traffic high-risk incidents among 1,737 reported in 2015-2019; counts only, no cost.
• Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner: Audit findings against accredited companies' systems, including traffic management plan criteria, as issue rates; no penalty or cost.
• Safe Work Australia: Construction median compensation AU$18,500 per serious claim covers every injury cause and cannot be tied to a permit, traffic plan, environmental condition or asbestos register.

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