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How to identify and handle low density asbestos fibre board
01 October 2015 |
Guidance materials
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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  • Asbestos
  • Occupational lung disease
  • Construction
  • Managing health and safety
  • The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
Guidance Note on the Membrane Filter Method for Estimating Airborne Asbestos Fibres 2nd Edition
01 January 2005 |
Guidance materials
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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  • Asbestos
  • Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
  • Construction
  • The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
Hand arm vibration information sheet
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
Whole body vibration information sheet
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
  • The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
Health monitoring for asbestos
19 February 2020 |
Guidance materials
The guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to asbestos. Examples of work with asbestos include: removing asbestos and demolition work maintenance workers like electricians, computer cabling installers and air-conditioning…
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  • Asbestos
  • Health monitoring
  • Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 17 Nov 2021
Taking Action: A best practice framework for the management of psychological claims in the Australian workers’ compensation sector
27 May 2021 |
Guidance materials
This framework provides practical and evidence-based guidance to assist workers' compensation insurers and claims managers to better support workers with a psychological injury.
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  • Mental health
  • Return to work
  • Workers' compensation
Page last updated: 05 Oct 2021