20 March 2020 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of a falls by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury.
It applies to all workplaces covered by the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and WHS …
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- Cranes
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Model WHS Laws
- Safe design
- Slips, trips and falls
- Working at heights
- Managing health and safety
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- The work environment
Page last updated: 09 Jun 2022
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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- Ergonomics
- Sedentary work
- Sitting and standing
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
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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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Sitting and standing
- Sedentary work
- Safe design
- Good work design
- Australian WHS Strategy 2012-2022
- Health, illness and disease
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 28 Sep 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
This information sheet provides information on managing risks associated with steel erection work including:
who has responsibilities at the design and planning stage?
when steel erection work is classed as high risk construction work. …
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- Safe design
- Cranes
- Working at heights
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 22 Sep 2021