Working outside - Working in hazardous weather
Working in hazardous weather Managing the risks of working in hazardous weather Weather conditions can pose health and safety risks. Your workplace must have measures in place to manage the risks to health and safety caused by hazardous weather …
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Drugs and alcohol Duties relating to drugs and alcohol 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, …
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Major hazard facilities - Resources
Resources Work health safety (WHS) Regulations Chapter 9 – Major hazard facilities in the model WHS Regulations Guides for major hazard facilities Guide for major hazard facilities – Notification and determination Guide for major hazard facilities – …
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Work-related contact dermatitis - Overview
Overview What is contact dermatitis? Contact dermatitis is when your skin becomes inflamed because of something that has touched it. Dermatitis can make your skin dry, red, painful and itchy. It can also cause your skin to split and crack, peel, feel like …
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Small business Small businesses have less than 20 workers. They are often single-director companies and family businesses. In 2018–19, small businesses made up 97% of all Australian businesses and employed 4.7 million workers. Work health and safety …
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Workplace violence and aggression - Overview
Overview Workplace violence and aggression is any incident where a person is abused, threatened or assaulted at work or while they are carrying out work. If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have work health and safety …
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Mental health - WHS duties
WHS duties The model WHS Regulations define a psychosocial hazard as a hazard that may cause psychological harm (whether or not it may also cause physical harm). They arise from, or relate to: the design or management of work a work environment plant at a …
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PCBU Duties The model WHS Act and model WHS Regulations establish a framework to support this primary duty. This includes: Specific duties to manage psychosocial risks Consulting workers and any HSRs Consulting other duty holders. Specific duties to …
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Worker and other person duties Workers must: take reasonable care for their own psychological and physical health and safety take reasonable care not to adversely affect the health and safety of other persons comply with reasonable health and safety …
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Workplace violence and aggression - Workplace violence and aggression
Workplace violence and aggression Supporting information Preventing workplace violence and aggression guide Workplace violence and aggression – guidance for small business Workplace violence and aggression – advice for workers Family and domestic …