15 September 2022 |
Information sheet
Slips, trips and falls result in tens of thousands of injuries every year in Australian workplaces.
This infosheet has information about managing the risks of slips, trips and falls.
Supporting information
Managing the risk of falls
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- National Safe Work Month
- Slips, trips and falls
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 20 Sep 2022
15 November 2021 |
Guide
Concrete pumping can pose many serious health and safety risks. This guide provides practical information to persons conducting a business or undertaking and others on how to manage the risks of concrete pumping.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
06 July 2021 |
Resources
This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of formwork and falsework.
This document is part of a series which includes:
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- Slips, trips and falls
- Excavation
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
19 March 2020 |
Fact sheets
This fact sheet provides information about managing risks from slips and trips.
Supporting information
Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls at workplaces
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- Ergonomics
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Reports
This educational resource provides guidance about work health and safety and safe work design.
It covers the evidence and theory behind the principles of good work design. Further guidance is available in:
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- Safe design
- Good work design
Page last updated: 27 Oct 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 October 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
Use this model Code of Practice if you design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace. This includes architects, building designers and engineers.
This model Code is also relevant for anyone making…
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- Cranes
- Demolition
- Good work design
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Licenses
- Model WHS Laws
- Safe design
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
01 October 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of falls in housing construction.
In this model Code, the word:
‘should’ indicates a recommended course of action, and
‘may’ means an optional course of action.
The words ‘must…
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- Cranes
- Model WHS Laws
- Slips, trips and falls
- Working at heights
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
04 October 2016 |
Video and audio
In this seminar, Dr Carmel Harrington and Professor Drew Dawson examine why fatigue management is important from both a worker and a business perspective and what businesses and workers can do to manage the risks caused by fatigue in the workplace.
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- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 16 Nov 2021
29 August 2016 |
Video and audio
Our panellists suggest practical ways to use supply chains to protect the health and safety of workers, emphasising the importance of consultation and cooperation.
Who is this presentation for?
Business leaders in large and small enterprises, workers,…
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- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 28 Apr 2022
26 October 2015 |
Video and audio
Professor Parker discusses the principles of good work design, why they are important, and how we can use them to make workplaces safer and improve workers’ wellbeing.
She emphasises that good work design is not a one-size-fits-all strategy – it must…
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- Good work design
- Mental health
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 01 Aug 2022