18 February 2020 |
Guidance materials
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to isocyanates.
Isocyanates are a group of highly reactive, organic compounds of the formula R-N=C=O.
Examples of work with isocyanates include work where you release isocyanates as…
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Health monitoring
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 07 Mar 2022
09 July 2012 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide to manage the risks of isocyanates at your workplace.
Isocyanates are hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing materials, like:
polyurethane foams
rubbers
plastics
varnishes
adhesives
paints. …
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Health monitoring
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 07 Mar 2022
27 February 2015 |
Information sheet
Use this information sheet to manage the health and safety risks of solvents at your workplace.
Solvents are widely used in workplaces. For example, they are in cleaning and degreasing materials, paints, lacquers and varnishes, adhesives, inks and …
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- All industries
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Hazardous chemicals
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
11 December 2013 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide if you work with refractory ceramic fibres (RCF) or high biopersistence fibres and need to manage the health and safety risks to workers.
RCFs are a form of man-made fibre most commonly used as high-performance thermal insulators. They …
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
12 April 2012 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide if your workplace carries out electroplating.
It can also be used by workplaces undertaking:
anodizing or hot-dip galvanizing
electroless plating
metal finishing.
Electroplating work uses hazardous chemicals, live electrical…
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
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21 September 2021 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide if you manage risks to workers exposed to diesel exhaust at the workplace, including:
drive-in booth operators
miners
construction workers
oil and gas workers
forklift drivers
loading dock workers …
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Mining
- Transport
- Hazardous chemicals
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
10 November 2014 |
Reports
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…
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- Disease and injury data
- Fatality statistics
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safe design
- All industries
- Manufacturing
- Plant, equipment and structures
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021