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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.
12 April 2012 |
Guide
Advice on the application of workplace exposure standards for airborne contaminants in the workplace.
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Page last updated: 31 May 2023
01 October 2015 |
Guide
Use this guide if you manage diesel exhaust exposures at the workplace.
Exposure to diesel exhaust can cause eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, and suffocation. Long-term exposure can:
worsen allergies
increase the risk of heart and lung disease,…
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Page last updated: 28 Nov 2022
21 March 2020 |
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This document outlines the criteria for how to find hazardous chemicals that could be added to or removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
06 September 2021 |
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This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This information is on the workplace exposure standard (WES) for non-threshold based genotoxic carcinogens. It helps you:
identify this type of chemical
calculate a minimal cancer risk.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
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WES review methodology.
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document outlines the criteria to assign a skin notation to a chemical.
A skin notation (Sk) is an advisory notation to the workplace exposure standards (WES).
This Sk notation alerts you to the risk of chemicals being absorbed through the skin…
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document details primary and secondary sources of health-based data used to inform recommendations for workplace exposure standards (WES) for hazardous chemicals and sources for recommendations for notations.
Supporting information
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document is about a new notation for ‘immediately dangerous to life or health’ (IDLH) in the workplace exposure standards (WES).
An IDLH notation will indicate an airborne chemical concentration that can either:
cause death
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Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
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This document identifies appropriate domestic and international sources that support the WES review.
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