25 September 2020 |
Resources
This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of specific terms and concepts used in the provisions of the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act to prohibit discriminatory, coercive or misleading conduct.
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- Model Work Health and Safety Laws
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
27 May 2021 |
Resources
This framework provides practical and evidence-based guidance to assist workers' compensation insurers and claims managers to better support workers with a psychological injury.
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- Mental health
- Return to work
- Workers' compensation
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
21 October 2021 |
Guide
This guide provides information on how to manage the risks associated with working in heat and what to do if a worker begins to suffer from a heat-related illness.
Document
- Identify, assess and control hazards
- Working in heat
- Working in weather
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
01 December 2019 |
Guide
This guide provides information on managing the risks of solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) at your workplace:
It includes:
the risks of exposing workers to solar UVR
the control measures that can help eliminate or minimise exposure
how to…
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- Working in heat
- Working in weather
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21 March 2020 |
Resources
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.
You can find more information in:
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
06 September 2021 |
Resources
This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
You can also see the:
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- Hazardous chemicals
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
Resources
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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- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
Resources
This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
You can also see the:
WES review methodology.
Document
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
Resources
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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- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
- Hazardous chemicals
- Managing health and safety
- The work environment
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022
14 June 2018 |
Resources
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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- Hazardous chemicals
- Workplace exposure standards for chemicals
Page last updated: 24 Nov 2022