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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.

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Manual handling risks associated with the care, treatment and transportation of bariatric (severely obese) patients in Australia
19 March 2020 |
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This report provides information on the risks associated with caring for obese and bariatric patients, including:  transporting patients   moving patients  in-home treatment  treatment while in hostel/hospital care. 
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  • Manual handling
  • Lifting, pushing and pulling
  • Ergonomics
  • Health, illness and disease
  • Research and studies
  • Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
Does the evidence and theory support the good work design principles?
19 March 2020 |
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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
  • Research and studies
Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
Attitudes towards risk taking and rule breaking in Australian workplaces
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This paper reports on the attitudes of Australian workers towards accepting risk taking and rule breaking in the workplace.   It’s based on the research brief and outcomes from the Perceptions of Work Health and Safety Survey 2012-–13, such as: 
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  • Leadership and culture
  • Identify, assess and control hazards
  • Workplace culture research
  • Managing health and safety
  • Research and studies
  • The work environment
Page last updated: 29 Sep 2021
National Hazard Exposure Worker Surveillance: Exposure to biomechanical demands, pain and fatigue symptoms and the provision of controls in Australia workplaces
19 March 2020 |
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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
  • Research and studies
Page last updated: 29 Sep 2021
Methodology for the Measurement Framework - National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030
10 June 2020 |
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Rationale and technical details underpinning the Measurement Framework
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  • Return to work
  • Workers' compensation
Page last updated: 20 Sep 2021
Measurement Framework - National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030
10 June 2020 |
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Measuring the success of the National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030
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  • Return to work
  • Workers' compensation
Page last updated: 20 Sep 2021
Work ability in Australia - Pilot study
19 March 2020 |
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This report by The University of Sydney presents the findings of a pilot study that aimed to:
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Page last updated: 18 Aug 2021
Return to Work Survey: Role of the Employer and Workplace. Australia and New Zealand 2013
19 March 2020 |
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This report demonstrates the important role employers play in supporting a worker to return to work following an injury. The report uses data from the 2013 Return to Work Survey of 4698 injured workers from Australia and New Zealand.
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  • Return to work
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2021