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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.
28 October 2011 |
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This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the term ‘reasonably practicable’ in considering the standard of health and safety that a person conducting a business or undertaking (the duty-holder) is expected to meet under the…
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This information is on the workplace exposure standard (WES) for non-threshold based genotoxic carcinogens. It helps you:
identify this type of chemical
calculate a minimal cancer risk.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
You can also see the:
WES review methodology.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the criteria to assign a skin notation to a chemical.
A skin notation (Sk) is an advisory notation to the workplace exposure standards (WES).
This Sk notation alerts you to the risk of chemicals being absorbed through the skin…
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14 June 2018 |
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This document details primary and secondary sources of health-based data used to inform recommendations for workplace exposure standards (WES) for hazardous chemicals and sources for recommendations for notations.
Supporting information
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14 June 2018 |
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This document is about a new notation for ‘immediately dangerous to life or health’ (IDLH) in the workplace exposure standards (WES).
An IDLH notation will indicate an airborne chemical concentration that can either:
cause death
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14 June 2018 |
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This document identifies appropriate domestic and international sources that support the WES review.
You can find more information in:
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14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the criteria for how to find hazardous chemicals that could be added to or removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
You can find more information in:
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14 June 2018 |
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This document is about a process to recommend health-based values and advisory notations for chemicals in the workplace exposure standards (WES) list. The outcomes are based on information from selected primary and secondary sources.
You can find more…
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
22 December 2011 |
Legislation
A list of workplace exposure standards for airborne contaminants and how to meet your duties under the Work Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
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