01 January 2021 |
Guide
This guide provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), such as employers, on preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Risk management
- Workplace sexual harassment
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
01 January 2021 |
Fact sheets
This information sheet provides simple, clear and practical guidance to support small businesses meet their work health and safety (WHS) duties to manage health and safety risks from sexual harassment.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Risk management
- Workplace sexual harassment
- Workplace violence
Page last updated: 26 Oct 2022
27 July 2021 |
Infographic
Supporting information
What is workplace sexual harassment?
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- Bullying
- Workplace sexual harassment
Page last updated: 10 Oct 2022
31 January 2022 |
Infographic
Related information
Workplace sexual harassment webpage
Guide: Preventing workplace sexual harassment
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- Workplace sexual harassment
Page last updated: 10 Oct 2022
01 January 2021 |
Resources
This information sheet provides advice for workers about duties under WHS laws and what to do if workers experience or witness sexual harassment at the workplace.
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- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Mental health
- Model WHS Laws
- Risk management
- Workplace sexual harassment
Page last updated: 01 Aug 2022
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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- Cargo handling
- Hazard surveillance research
- Hazardous chemicals
- Stevedoring
- Cargo handling
- Supply chains and networks
- Hazardous chemicals
- Research and studies
- Safety by industry and business
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
01 February 2010 |
Reports
While the use of asbestos has been banned in Australia since 2003, in the past there was widespread use of asbestos in buildings. Construction and maintenance workers may be more likely to be involved in work that can disturb asbestos.
This study was…
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- Asbestos
- Hazard surveillance research
- Occupational disease research
- Occupational lung disease
- Research and studies
- Safety by industry and business
- The work environment
- Workers
Page last updated: 23 Nov 2021
15 March 2012 |
Reports
Biological hazards are organic substances that pose a threat to the health of humans and other living organisms. They include pathogenic micro-organisms, viruses (e.g. Hepatitis, HIV, avian flu, Q-fever), toxins, spores, fungi and bio-active substances.…
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- Biological hazards
- Hazard surveillance research
- Statistics
- Hazardous chemicals
- Research and studies
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
15 March 2012 |
Reports
This report provides a profile of the occupational and demographic characteristics of workers who reported dermal (or skin) exposure to chemicals at work, as well as the types of controls with which respondents reported they were provided in the workplace…
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- Hazard surveillance research
- Statistics
- Hazardous chemicals
- Research and studies
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021
21 November 2014 |
Reports
The Australian Work Exposures Study (AWES) was a national survey conducted by the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research (WAIMR) in 2011–12 that investigated work-related exposures among Australian workers to 38 known or suspected carcinogens.…
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- Carcinogens
- Hazard surveillance research
- Hazardous chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Research and studies
Page last updated: 09 Nov 2021