21 October 2021 |
Guide
This guide provides information on how to manage the risks associated with working in heat and what to do if a worker begins to suffer from a heat-related illness.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Working in heat
- Working in weather
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
21 September 2021 |
Resources
Use this guide if you manage risks to workers exposed to diesel exhaust at the workplace, including:
drive-in booth operators
miners
construction workers
oil and gas workers
forklift drivers
loading dock workers …
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Mining
- Transport
- Hazardous chemicals
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 20 Sep 2023
08 December 2020 |
Fact sheets
This fact sheet outlines key information on managing the risks of working in heat in both outdoor and indoor workplaces.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Working in heat
- Working in weather
Page last updated: 21 Sep 2021
07 December 2020 |
Fact sheets
Working in heat can be hazardous and can cause harm to workers in both indoor and outdoor work environments.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Working in heat
- Working in weather
Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
20 March 2020 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of a falls by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury.
It applies to all workplaces covered by the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and WHS …
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- Cranes
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Model WHS Laws
- Safe design
- Slips, trips and falls
- Working at heights
- Managing health and safety
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- The work environment
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
20 March 2020 |
Guide
Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces.
The guide includes information on:
using plant in rural workplaces
selecting the most suitable vehicle for your needs, and
how…
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- Plant design, supply and registration
- Quad bikes
- Safe design
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 28 Nov 2022
20 March 2020 |
Resources
This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including:
determining farm vehicle needs
identifying other options to find the most suitable farm vehicles.
Prevention of hazards …
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- Safe design
- Quad bikes
- Plant design, supply and registration
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 21 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Resources
This handbook provides guidance on good work design. It includes the 10 principles relevant to any workplace, business or industry.
You can apply the principles to designing:
structures, plant and substances
work, work processes and systems…
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Sitting and standing
- Sedentary work
- Safe design
- Good work design
- Australian WHS Strategy 2012-2022
- Health, illness and disease
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 28 Sep 2021
01 May 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction. The duty is placed on persons conducting a business…
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- Bullying
- Confined spaces
- Fatigue
- First aid
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Model WHS Laws
- Noise
- Personal protective equipment
- Risk management
- Working in heat
- Managing health and safety
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- The work environment
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
01 May 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks of plant in the workplace.
Use this Code if you:
manage or control plant in the workplace
install, construct and commission plant.
Plant is a major cause of work-related death and…
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- Cranes
- Demolition
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Licenses
- Model WHS Laws
- Plant design, supply and registration
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- Plant, equipment and structures
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
27 February 2015 |
Information sheet
Use this information sheet to manage the health and safety risks of solvents at your workplace.
Solvents are widely used in workplaces. For example, they are in cleaning and degreasing materials, paints, lacquers and varnishes, adhesives, inks and …
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- All industries
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Hazardous chemicals
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
10 November 2014 |
Reports
This study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.
Of these, 63 fatalities (12%) were determined to have been either…
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- Disease and injury data
- Fatality statistics
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safe design
- All industries
- Manufacturing
- Plant, equipment and structures
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021