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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 risks associated with excavation work.
This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including:
bulk excavations more than 1.5 metres deep
trenches
shafts
tunnels.
Excavation…
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Page last updated: 18 Aug 2022
06 July 2021 |
Model Codes of Practice
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.
This…
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Page last updated: 06 Dec 2021
19 February 2016 |
Information sheet
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.
This…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
Managing risks of hazardous chemical exposure when unpacking shipping containers – Information sheet
19 February 2016 |
Information sheet
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…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
19 December 2012 |
Reports
Several European studies have reported high levels of residual chemical levels in sealed shipping containers. The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service found similar results when testing containers in Australia. These findings raise potential…
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Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
23 November 2016 |
Reports
Why has this research been done?
Sickness absence and presenteeism have a direct impact on organisation productivity
Previous research has indicated that Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and the psychological health outcomes of depression,…
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
29 August 2016 |
Reports
Why has this research been done?
Two important aspects of safety climate are management safety empowerment and management safety justice, which are the perceived degree to which employers respectively empower their workers to influence aspects of their…
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
05 September 2014 |
Guidance materials
This Guide provides information on managing the risks of unauthorised persons working near low voltage overhead service lines near structures and buildings.
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
23 November 2016 |
Reports
Why has this research been done?
To better understand the prevalence of workplace bullying and harassment in Australian workplaces and to identify workplace risk factors associated with the occurrence of bullying and harassment.
What did we find?…
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Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
19 July 2013 |
Statistical reports
The report 'The relationship between work characteristics, wellbeing, depression and workplace bullying' describes the early findings from a project conducted as a partnership between Safe Work Australia and The Australian National University.
The report…
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