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Know your duties - a tool for working safely
This tool provides information about duties under the model WHS laws, including duties for PCBUs and workers in the agriculture industry, how to meet these duties, and hazards you may face working in agriculture.
27 October 2023 |
Regulatory impact statement
This Decision Regulation Impact Statement (Decision RIS) provides an analysis of the impact of a prohibition on the use of engineered stone under the model WHS laws.
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02 August 2023 |
This information sheet provides practical information for workers who are doing computer-based work from home.
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02 August 2023 |
Information sheet
This information sheet provides practical guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) on managing work health and safety (WHS) risks when workers are doing computer-based work from home.
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07 August 2020 |
Reports
The Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) prepared this report, which:
outlines the current landscape of occupational lung diseases in Australia
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20 March 2020 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on how to meet the standards of work health and safety (WHS) required under the WHS Act and Regulations in relation to construction work.
In this model Code, the word:
'should' indicates a recommended…
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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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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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18 March 2016 |
Reports
Safe Work Australia’s emerging issues surveillance program identifies new priority issues which can affect workers’ health and safety, and undertakes and disseminates research to investigate these. As part of this program, Safe Work Australia…
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19 March 2012 |
Reports
This report, the first from the occupational skin disease database, can be considered a preliminary description of the working population and substances associated with occupational skin disease in Australia.
It consists of an analysis of 18 years of…
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01 February 2010 |
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While the use of asbestos has been banned in Australia since 2003, in the past there was widespread use of asbestos in buildings. Construction and maintenance workers may be more likely to be involved in work that can disturb asbestos.
This study was…
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