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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 February 2023 |
Regulatory impact statement
This Decision regulation impact statement (Decision RIS) provides an impact analysis of the regulatory and non-regulatory options to manage the risks of respirable crystalline silica at work.
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Page last updated: 02 Mar 2023
01 October 2015 |
Guide
Use this guide if you manage diesel exhaust exposures at the workplace.
Exposure to diesel exhaust can cause eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, and suffocation. Long-term exposure can:
worsen allergies
increase the risk of heart and lung disease,…
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Page last updated: 28 Nov 2022
21 October 2021 |
Guide
This guide provides information on how to manage the risks associated with working in heat and what to do if a worker begins to suffer from a heat-related illness.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
21 March 2020 |
Resources
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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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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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
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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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
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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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
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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