Milestones

  • 18 August to 15 September 2017: Consultation on premiums and eligibility
  • September to November 2017: Consultation on business planning, prudential regulation, claims handling, provider licensing and market practices
  • October to November 2017: Consultation on regulations
  • Early 2018: New guidelines and regulations will be finalised and implemented
  • The issue

    Consultation period: 01/01/2016 12:00 am to 01/01/2016 12:00 am

    What is this about?

    There are more than 500 pyrotechnicians licenced in New South Wales. Every year SafeWork issues about 596 single-use fireworks licences to councils and other event organisers for one-off events. Fireworks are spectacular, however they can also cause significant injury and even death.

    We aim to improve worker and public safety around fireworks, and to ensure that license holders are aware of the safety conditions every time they use pyrotechnics.

    We have reviewed the current Operational Conditions for Pyrotechnicians and Single-Use Fireworks Licenses and created a new draft that includes proposed changes. These include:

    • storage, handling, transport, use and notification of fireworks licences and prepared fireworks displays
    • how specific conditions appear in the document (in italics in the draft Operational Conditions)
    • more guidance to make the operational requirements easier to follow.

    Licence holders who do not comply with the conditions may be fined, have their licence suspended or cancelled, or be prosecuted.

    The draft document addresses feedback we have received since the current conditions were published in 2013.

    Next steps

    Please review the Draft Operational Conditions document linked below.

    Use the form below to provide your feedback.

    You can provide additional feedback by email to operationalconditionsreview@safework.nsw.gov.au.

    We will carefully consider feedback before we finalise the document.

    All submissions will be published on our website, unless we’ve been asked not to.

  • The milestones

    Submissions open: Tuesday, 29th September 2020

    Submissions close: Friday, 13th November 2020

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Status:

Started: 01/01/2016 12:00 am

Submissions closed: 01/01/2016 12:00 am

If you can't provide your submission using this form, you can send your feedback to:

Office of the registrar General
McKell Building
2-24 Rawson Place
Sydney NSW 2001