Carcinogens - Managing risks
Managing risks Exposure to carcinogens is a significant risk to workers’ health. A risk assessment can help you, as the PCBU, to identify, assess and control the risks of carcinogens. Find the hazards When trying to find the hazards, think about the …
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Carcinogens - Overview
Overview Carcinogens can be in the air, in something you eat or drink, or be something that touches your skin. Cancer may take many years to develop and there may be no early signs that an exposure will lead to cancer. If your workers could be exposed to …
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Volunteers - Overview
Overview Depending on whether you employ people to work, your organisation is: a volunteer organisation – covered by WHS laws a volunteer association – not covered by WHS laws. Volunteers and workers Under the model WHS laws, a worker can be …
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Bullying - Overview
Overview If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have work health and safety (WHS) duties to ensure workers and others are not exposed to risks to their health and safety, including from bullying. How to tell if it’s …
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Retail services - WHS duties
WHS duties Everyone in the workplace has WHS duties under the model WHS Act . You have specific duties if you are: a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) a principal contractor a designer, manufacturer, importer, supplier and installer …
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Workplace violence and aggression - Managing risks
Managing risks You must eliminate or minimise the health and safety risks of workplace violence and aggression so far as is reasonably practicable. This process is known as risk management and involves: identifying the hazards assessing the associated …
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Volunteers - Resources
Resources Peak bodies for volunteers Volunteering Australia Volunteering and Contact (Australian Capital Territory) Centre for Volunteering (New South Wales) Volunteering Qld (Queensland) Volunteering SA–NT (South Australia and Northern …
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Volunteers - WHS duties
WHS duties If you are a volunteer organisation, you have WHS duties to your paid (employed) and unpaid (volunteer) workers. If you are a volunteer association, you do not have WHS duties under law. WHS duties for volunteer organisations As the person …
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Retail services - Overview
Overview Vulnerable workers in retail services Retail services often employ vulnerable workers, including: young workers part-time and casual workers culturally and linguistically diverse workers. Vulnerable workers may: be more at risk of work …
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Health care and social assistance - WHS duties
WHS duties You have specific duties if you are: a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) a principal contractor a designer, manufacturer, importer, supplier and installer of plant, substances or structures an officer. The model WHS …