Concrete pumping - Overview
Overview People in the construction industry pump concrete for: manufacturing pre-cast and tilt up concrete panels concrete formwork slab construction concrete paving concrete spraying. Concrete pumping has caused serious incidents over recent …
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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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Bullying - Managing risks
Managing risks You must treat the risk of bullying just as you would any other workplace hazard. This means applying a risk management approach to eliminate or minimise risks so far as is reasonably practicable. The risk management process involves: …
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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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Asbestos - WHS duties
WHS duties WHS duties for businesses who work with asbestos Under the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations , you must: train all workers who might work with asbestos arrange safe asbestos removal keep an asbestos register have …
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Asbestos - Overview
Overview Ban on asbestos Before being banned in December 2003, asbestos was used in a range of industries including in the construction and transport industries. It’s now illegal to make, import or use asbestos because of its long-term dangers to …
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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 …