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 …
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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 - Managing risks
Managing risks Workers may be exposed to a range of hazards that can affect their health and well-being, depending on: the services they provide the location of the workplace, and the people being cared for. The following can help to identify …