19 March 2020 |
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This guide provides information on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to volunteers. It outlines how volunteers can meet their work health and safety duties and explains what volunteers can expect from the organisations they volunteer…
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 28 Apr 2022
03 February 2020 |
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This guide provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) involving the supply of workers (labour hire PCBUs) to work for another business or undertaking (host PCBUs) on complying with their health and safety duties under…
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- Labour hire
- Law and regulation
- Model WHS Laws
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 26 Apr 2022
19 November 2020 |
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This document provides guidance on the standard of health and safety that a PCBU must meet under the WHS Act and Regulations. A PCBU must do what is ‘reasonably practicable’ to ensure health and safety.
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 26 Apr 2022
20 March 2020 |
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A general guide to help people understand their health and safety duties and rights at work.
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- Law and regulation
- Model WHS Laws
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 26 Apr 2022
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Workers using hand-held power tools – such as jack-hammers, chainsaws, grinders, drills, riveters and impact wrenches – may be exposed to harmful levels of hard-arm vibration (HAV).
This information sheet is on how to manage the risk of HAV in the…
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- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Vibration
- Health, illness and disease
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
23 September 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this information sheet if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This information sheet is part of a workplace vibration collection, including:
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- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Vibration
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
This guide provides an overview of the structure of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations. This guide will help readers identify what duties or rights are contained in each Part of the model WHS Regulations, and direct readers to other…
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide to manage health and safety risks associated with high pressure water jetting operations.
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- Managing health and safety
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 05 Oct 2021
25 September 2020 |
Guidance materials
This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of specific terms and concepts used in the provisions of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act to prohibit discriminatory, coercive or misleading conduct.
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 29 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.
These information sheets have information on:
managing the health and safety risks of hazardous chemical exposure when unpacking shipping containers
managing…
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- Manual handling
- Hazardous chemicals
- Working at heights
- Ergonomics
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021