Guide to managing the risks of rooftop solar installation work

Our Guide to managing the risks of rooftop solar installation work assists duty holders, primarily PCBUs, to manage the risks to health and safety associated with rooftop solar installation work. 

The guide was updated in September 2025 to include guidance for managing the work health and safety (WHS) risks of installation of batteries (battery energy storage systems).

The guide is for anyone who retails, surveys, designs, installs, tests, commissions, retrofits, repairs, maintains, decommissions or removes rooftop solar systems on residential or commercial structures. This includes new or retrofitted solar panels, inverters, batteries and related equipment.

Related guidance:

• Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the work environment and facilities
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of plant in the workplace
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls at workplaces
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls in housing construction
• Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks
• Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work
• Model Code of Practice: Confined spaces
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace
• Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work
• Guide for managing the risks of working in heat