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Clear filters19 March 2020 |
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This guide provides information on managing the risks with scaffolds and scaffolding at the workplace.
This guide is supported by specific guidance material for:
suspended (swing stage) scaffolds
scaffold inspection and maintenance …
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Page last updated: 03 May 2022
01 October 2015 |
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Use this guide if you manage diesel exhaust exposures at the workplace.
Exposure to diesel exhaust can cause eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, and suffocation. Long-term exposure can:
worsen allergies
increase the risk of heart and lung disease…
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Page last updated: 27 Apr 2022
19 March 2020 |
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Information on how to manage the risks associated with amusement devices and passenger ropeways at a workplace.
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Page last updated: 12 Apr 2022
12 April 2012 |
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Advice on the application of workplace exposure standards for airborne contaminants in the workplace.
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Page last updated: 29 Nov 2021
01 October 2015 |
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This guide will help you identify low density asbestos fibre board (LDB) and will provide you with information about managing and handling LDB.
You should use this guide if you think you may have LDB in your workplace, are a worker who handles or is…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
11 December 2013 |
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Use this guide if you work with refractory ceramic fibres (RCF) or high biopersistence fibres and need to manage the health and safety risks to workers.
RCFs are a form of man-made fibre most commonly used as high-performance thermal insulators. They …
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
01 January 2005 |
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Developed to provide laboratories and analysts with a consistent methodology for the sampling and analysis of airborne asbestos fibres in workplaces.
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
12 April 2012 |
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Use this guide if your workplace carries out electroplating.
It can also be used by workplaces undertaking:
anodizing or hot-dip galvanizing
electroless plating
metal finishing.
Electroplating work uses hazardous chemicals, live electrical…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the criteria to assign a skin notation to a chemical.
A skin notation (Sk) is an advisory notation to the workplace exposure standards (WES).
This Sk notation alerts you to the risk of chemicals being absorbed through the skin…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
14 June 2018 |
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This document is about a new notation for ‘immediately dangerous to life or health’ (IDLH) in the workplace exposure standards (WES).
An IDLH notation will indicate an airborne chemical concentration that can either:
cause death
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