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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 Code of Practice provides practical advice for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and other duty holders on managing risks associated with stevedoring. It applies to all workplaces where stevedoring operations are carried out.
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Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.
Australia has now adopted the 7th Revised edition of the GHS (GHS 7). Only GHS 7 can be used to classify, label and…
Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.
Australia has now adopted the 7th Revised edition of the GHS (GHS 7). Only GHS 7 can be used to classify, label and prepare…
This model Code of Practice guides you on how to correctly label hazardous chemicals used in the workplace.
Use this Code of Practice if you make, import, supply or use hazardous chemicals.
This model Code of Practice guides you on how to develop a safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical manufactured or imported in Australia for:
use
handling
storage
This Code of Practice also applies if you manufacture or import hazardous chemicals…
Use this fact sheet if your business makes or supplies alcohol-based hand sanitisers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alcohol-based hand sanitisers are hazardous chemicals. For example, ethanol and isopropanol are flammable liquids and cause severe eye…
This report investigates the predictors of early retirement among middle-aged workers, with particular interest in the influence of unfavourable psychosocial working conditions like high job demands, low job control and high perceived job insecurity.
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.
Shipping containers can have hazardous chemical residues in the air and on surfaces.
Airborne hazardous chemicals are a significant risk to workers’ health and…
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers that have been fumigated with methyl bromide.
Methyl bromide is used as a fumigant to stop pests, like insects, from being imported into Australia.
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Use this information sheet if you manufacture or import agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemicals.
It includes changes to work health and safety (WHS) labelling requirements for AgVet chemicals.
Use this information sheet if your business uses, handles or stores agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemicals.
Supporting Information
Information sheet for manufacturers and importers of agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemicals