11 December 2013 |
Guidance materials
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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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
12 April 2012 |
Guidance materials
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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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
21 September 2021 |
Guidance materials
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: 23 Nov 2021
20 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
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: 27 Oct 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
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