South Australia: fatigue on prison rosters and the status of the Working Hours code
What applies
Although the old Approved Code of Practice for Working Hours appears in the regulator’s online catalogue, the Minister revoked it under section 274(1) of the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA). The notice was published in the Gazette on 30 October 2014 at page 6214. No later approval was identified in the sources checked. SafeWork SA currently links to the separate September 2025 national fatigue document as a model code. Neither document is counted here as a current SA-approved code.
What to check in corrections
The general duties under the WHS Act still apply. For prison rosters, compare scheduled and actual hours, overtime, breaks, repeated night shifts and near misses. Raise risks through consultation and record the controls proposed and reviewed. Check separately what the applicable industrial instruments say about work hours and payments; roster compliance does not by itself establish that fatigue risks have been controlled.
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