04 September 2023 |
Guide
Supporting information:
More detailed information about asbestos registers at the workplace can be found in the model Code of Practice: How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace.
Document
- Asbestos
- Hazardous chemical registers
Page last updated: 05 Sep 2023
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
05 April 2022 |
Fact sheets
This fact sheet provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) who are working as part of a contractual chain.
A contractual chain refers to the situation where, in relation to the same project or work matter, there are…
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- Workers
Page last updated: 02 May 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
16 April 2021 |
Resources
This checklist helps you put in place traffic control measures in your workplace.
This checklist is part of a collection with:
Information Sheet – Traffic Management
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- Contracts
- Traffic management
- Workplace traffic management
Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
24 February 2021 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals for persons conducting a business or undertaking who use chemicals in their workplace.
Use this…
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- Carcinogens
- Hazardous chemical registers
- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Lead
- Model WHS Laws
- Registers, manifests and placards
- Risk management
- Safety data sheets
- Hazardous chemicals
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 19 Jun 2023
07 January 2021 |
Resources
Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.
Document
- Classifying chemicals
- Hazardous chemical registers
- Hazardous chemicals GHS 7
- Labelling chemicals
- Safety data sheets
Page last updated: 16 Jun 2023
01 July 2020 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice guides you on how to develop a safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical manufactured or imported in Australia for:
use
handling
storage
This Code of Practice also applies if you manufacture or import hazardous chemicals…
Document
- Classifying chemicals
- Hazardous chemical registers
- Hazardous chemicals
- Labelling chemicals
- Model WHS Laws
- Registers, manifests and placards
- Safety data sheets
- Hazardous chemicals
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 19 Jun 2023
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 …
Document
- 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
Document
- Ergonomics
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Reports
Biomechanical demands such as repetitive hand or arm movements, lifting heavy loads or working in awkward postures contribute to the development or worsening of inflammatory or degenerative musculoskeletal disorders. However, little is known about…
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- Manual handling
- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Hazard surveillance research
- Fatigue
- Disease and illness
Page last updated: 29 Sep 2021
30 May 2019 |
Statistical reports
Part 3: Premiums, entitlements and scheme performance - compares the premium rates, entitlements and scheme performance of jurisdictions across Australia and New Zealand.
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- Comparing workers' compensation scheme performance
- Comparing workers' compensation schemes
- Disease and injury data
- Disease and injury data by state and territory
- Fatalities by state and territory
- Fatality statistics
- Statistics
- Workers' compensation
- Safety by industry and business
- Statistics
- Workers
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021