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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Volunteers … Everyone has the right to be safe at work, including volunteers. Volunteers do unpaid work for organisations and play a vital role in our workforce and communities across Australia. If you are a volunteer, or you engage volunteers, you …
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Traffic management - Work on or near a public road
Work on or near a public road If you have workers on or near a public road, you must consider extra risks. If temporary traffic management measures are required, you should consider: the circumstances of the work the work being undertaken, and the …
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Traffic management - Managing risks
Managing risks Part of your work health and safety (WHS) duties is to identify hazards and assess and control the risks associated with traffic. Identifying hazards with traffic management Look around the workplace to find areas where people and …
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Traffic management - Overview
Overview Traffic management involves planning and controlling the movement of persons and goods, including: both stationary and moving traffic pedestrians cyclists, and all types of vehicles, including plant . Keeping this movement orderly and …
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Safe design - Managing risks
Managing risks As a PCBU, you have duties under WHS laws if you manage, control or change a product’s design. Part of those duties is to identify hazards and manage risks in the design, from concept and throughout the product’s lifecycle. The model …
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Safe design - Overview
Overview The benefits of safe design include: stopping people getting sick or hurt making products, systems and facilities more usable improving productivity saving costs. Using products with safe design helps businesses: know and manage how much …
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Plant Supporting information Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace Guide for safe design of plant Guide for importing and supplying safe plant Guide for manufacturing safe plant … Plant includes machinery, …
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Plant - Managing risks
Managing risks You must design, manufacture and supply plant that is safe and provide information on how to use it safely. The best time to eliminate hazards and minimise risks with plant is during its design. Managing risks in plant design, …
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Plant - WHS duties
WHS duties If your work involves plant, you must identify and manage the related risks to keep people safe . You must always first try to eliminate risks. If you can’t, you must minimise them, so far as is reasonably practicable. Your duties as a person …