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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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- Plant, equipment and structures
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 06 Dec 2021
20 March 2020 |
Model Codes of Practice
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on:
identifying hazardous manual tasks
assessing the risks that may contribute to a musculoskeletal disorder
eliminating or minimising those risks.
Most jobs involve manual tasks, such as lifting,…
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- Confined spaces
- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Model WHS Laws
- Ergonomics
- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- The work environment
Page last updated: 06 Dec 2021
19 September 2012 |
Reports
This report reviews the European Union’s:
European Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC)
Directive on Vibration (2002/44/EC)
It looks at the directives’ requirements and how effective they are.
The report:
considers whether a similar…
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- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Vibration
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
19 March 2020 |
Guidance materials
Workers using hand-held power tools – such as jack-hammers, chainsaws, grinders, drills, riveters and impact wrenches – may be exposed to harmful levels of hard-arm vibration (HAV).
This information sheet is on how to manage the risk of HAV in the…
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- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Vibration
- Health, illness and disease
Page last updated: 22 Nov 2021
23 September 2020 |
Guidance materials
Use this information sheet if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This information sheet is part of a workplace vibration collection, including:
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- Lifting, pushing and pulling
- Manual handling
- Vibration
Page last updated: 22 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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- Mental health
- Productivity
- Workplace culture research
- Research and studies
- The work environment
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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- Leadership and culture
- Workplace culture research
- Research and studies
- The work environment
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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- Cranes
- Electrical safety
- Excavation
- Health and wellbeing
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
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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- Bullying
- Mental health
- Workplace culture research
- Research and studies
- The work environment
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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- Bullying
- Disease and injury data
- Mental health
- Workplace culture research
- Health, illness and disease
- Research and studies
- Statistics
- The work environment
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021