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Know your duties - a tool for working safely
This tool provides information about duties under the model WHS laws, including duties for PCBUs and workers in the agriculture industry, how to meet these duties, and hazards you may face working in agriculture.
26 October 2021 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to nickel.
Nickel (CAS 7440-02-0) is a hard, silver-white metal that exists naturally in the earth’s crust. It’s in small amounts in food, water, air and soil.
The main uses of nickel are…
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26 October 2021 |
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This guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to organophosphate pesticides.
Organophosphate (OPs) insecticides are widely used on a large variety of crops. Examples of work activities involving OPs include:
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26 October 2020 |
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This guide is for workers who use hazardous chemicals.
It explains what you and the person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) responsible for your workplace must do to monitor your health and keep you as safe as possible.
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26 October 2020 |
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Practical guidance to registered medical practitioners about requirements under the work health and safety (WHS) laws for health monitoring.
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21 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to trichloroethylene.
Trichloroethylene is a non-flammable chlorinated solvent used as a metal degreaser and electrical equipment cleaner. We also use it in glues, water-proofing agents,…
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21 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to toluene.
Toluene (CAS 108-88-3) is a colourless, highly flammable and volatile liquid that smells like benzene. It can be in the air of a workroom as vapour.
Toluene is:
a…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to 4,4'-Methylene Bis (2Chloroaniline) [MOCA].
MOCA (CAS 101-14-4) is a light brown to colourless crystalline solid used mainly as a curing agent for isocyanate-based polyurethane products…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to vinyl chloride.
Vinyl chloride (CAS 75-01-4) is a colourless gas that burns easily. It does not occur naturally. You must make vinyl chloride industrially for commercial use. It’s also a…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to thallium.
Thallium (CAS 7440-28-0) is a blue-white, very soft metal. It oxidises in air to form a layer of thallous oxide (Tl2O). It forms alloys with other metals and readily mixes with…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
PAHs are made when burning organic material. They are found in in many workplace mixtures and can contaminate engine oil and smoke.
Examples of…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP).
Pure pentachlorophenol (CAS 87-86-5) is a colourless or white, needle-like crystal.
Commercial-grade PCP (86% purity) is a dark grey to brown solid with a…
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20 March 2020 |
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This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to inorganic mercury.
We use mercury in batteries, instruments like thermometers, floodlights, streetlights, manufacturing and to mine gold and silver ores. Exposure can happen when we…
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