01 November 2013 |
Guide
This Guide provides practical guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking and other duty holders on how to manage fatigue to ensure it does not contribute to health and safety risks in the workplace.
Document
- Disease and illness
- Fatigue
- Health and wellbeing
- Model WHS Laws
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
01 May 2018 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction. The duty is placed on persons conducting a business…
Document
- Bullying
- Confined spaces
- Fatigue
- First aid
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Model WHS Laws
- Noise
- Personal protective equipment
- Risk management
- Working in heat
- Managing health and safety
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- The work environment
Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
01 November 2013 |
Resources
This guide provides practical guidance for workers on how to manage fatigue to ensure it does not contribute to health and safety risks in the workplace.
Document
- Disease and illness
- Fatigue
- Health and wellbeing
- Model WHS Laws
Page last updated: 16 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Reports
Biomechanical demands such as repetitive hand or arm movements, lifting heavy loads or working in awkward postures contribute to the development or worsening of inflammatory or degenerative musculoskeletal disorders. However, little is known about…
Document
- Manual handling
- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Hazard surveillance research
- Fatigue
- Disease and illness
Page last updated: 29 Sep 2021
Video and audio
Today’s society is increasingly focused on a 24/7 economy and the expectations on people to work at all hours of the day have increased.
Research shows that shift work and irregular or long working hours, can adversely affect the health, safety and…
Video
- Fatigue
- Good work design
- Research
- Statistics
Page last updated: 23 Aug 2022
04 October 2016 |
Video and audio
In this seminar, Dr Carmel Harrington and Professor Drew Dawson examine why fatigue management is important from both a worker and a business perspective and what businesses and workers can do to manage the risks caused by fatigue in the workplace.
Video
- Managing health and safety
Page last updated: 16 Nov 2021