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This template is for organisations to write an emergency plan.
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- Emergency plans and procedures
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 16 Jun 2022
09 March 2012 |
Guidance materials
This guide gives major hazard facility (MHF) operators information on how to write, put in place and test an emergency plan for their MHF. The regulator will ask for this when MHF operators apply for an MHF license.
An emergency plan limits the effect…
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- Emergency plans and procedures
- Major hazard facilities
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
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Use this guide to manage the risks of working near overhead and underground electric lines.
There is also specific information on:
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- Scaffolding
- Cranes
- Excavation
- Electrical safety
Page last updated: 26 Oct 2021
19 March 2020 |
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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
20 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces.
The guide includes information on:
using plant in rural workplaces
selecting the most suitable vehicle for your needs, and …
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- Safe design
- Quad bikes
- Plant design, supply and registration
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021
20 March 2020 |
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This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including:
determining farm vehicle needs
identifying other options to find the most suitable farm vehicles.
Prevention of…
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- Safe design
- Quad bikes
- Plant design, supply and registration
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 21 Sep 2021