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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.
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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Page last updated: 09 Jun 2022
01 October 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
Use this model Code of Practice if you design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace. This includes architects, building designers and engineers.
This model Code is also relevant for anyone making…
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Page last updated: 06 Dec 2021
15 November 2021 |
Statistical reports
Work-related traumatic injury fatalities Australia 2020 report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work. This report does not include fatalities that occurred while the worker was commuting to or from work (…
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Page last updated: 15 Nov 2021
15 November 2021 |
Statistical reports
Safe Work Australia’s statistical reports released in 2021 mark the first time the data reference year includes periods when Australia was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The wide reach of the pandemic and the different public health and economic…
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Page last updated: 15 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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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
13 December 2017 |
Statistical reports
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.
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Reports
This educational resource provides guidance about work health and safety and safe work design.
It covers the evidence and theory behind the principles of good work design. Further guidance is available in:
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Page last updated: 27 Oct 2021
05 September 2021 |
This sample form may help you manage cash-in-transit security risks at your workplace.
This form is part of a series which includes:
General guide for managing cash-in-transit security risks
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Page last updated: 26 Oct 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this guide to manage risks with split rims. You should use this general guide if your workplace:
fits split rim tyres
repairs vehicles or machinery with split rim tyres.
Split rim tyres include a divided wheel, a multi-piece rim, or a multi-…
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Page last updated: 26 Oct 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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