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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.
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks associated with excavation work.
This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including:
bulk excavations more than 1.5 metres deep
trenches
shafts
tunnels.
Excavation…
This guide provides information on managing the risks associated with tower cranes.
This guide is part of a series including:
General guide for cranes
Inspecting and maintaining cranes
Mobile cranes
Bridge and Gantry cranes …
This information sheet provides guidance on managing the risks of crane-lifted work boxes.
It is supported by the general guide to cranes and specific guidance on:
mobile cranes
tower cranes
bridge and gantry cranes
vehicle loading…
Use this guide to manage risks with tunnelling work, including:
tunnel planning and preparation
air quality and ventilations systems
plant.
This guide is for:
designers
principal contractors
plant designers …
This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using powered mobile plant as a crane.
Using other powered mobile plant as a crane information sheet
This document is part of a series which includes:
This guide provides information on managing the risks of quick hitches for earthmoving machinery.
Supporting Information
his guide is part of a series including:
General guide for cranes
Use this guide to manage the risks of using mobile cranes in the workplace.
This includes risks of using:
tower cranes
bridge and gantry cranes
vehicle loading cranes
using powered mobile plant as a crane
crane-lifted work…
This study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.
Of these, 63 fatalities (12%) were determined to have been either…