09 June 2022 |
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An industrial rope access system is a work positioning system used for gaining access to, and working at, a workface, usually through vertically suspended ropes.
The guide provides information on managing the risks associated with industrial rope access…
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- Personal protective equipment
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Working at heights
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 28 Jun 2022
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
This guide provides information on managing risks associated with tree trimming and removal work, includes:
lopping
pruning
trimming
repairing
maintaining
removing amenity trees
wood chipping
stump…
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- Electrical safety
- Working at heights
- Plant, equipment and structures
- The work environment
Page last updated: 09 Jun 2022
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
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
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
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
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
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
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
This information sheet provides information on managing the risks associated with working on roofs including:
working at height
roof access
fragile roofs
electricity
manual tasks
falling objects
exposure to heat…
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- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
This information sheet provides information on managing risks associated with steel erection work including:
who has responsibilities at the design and planning stage?
when steel erection work is classed as high risk construction work. …
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- Safe design
- Cranes
- Working at heights
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.
These information sheets have information on:
managing the health and safety risks of hazardous chemical exposure when unpacking shipping containers
managing…
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- Manual handling
- Hazardous chemicals
- Working at heights
- Ergonomics
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021