WHS duties related to hazardous chemicals WHS duties related to hazardous chemicals If you are person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) involving hazardous chemicals, you have specific work health and safety (WHS) duties. Some of the duties are …
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Work-related contact dermatitis - Managing risks
Managing risks Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) (such as a business owner or workplace operator) you have a duty under the model WHS laws to make sure your workplace is safe for …
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Occupational lung diseases - Air Monitoring
Air Monitoring Workplace exposure standards (WES) represent the airborne concentration of a substance or mixture that can’t be exceeded. Substances that have workplace exposure standards are listed in the Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne …
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Slips, trips and falls The most common ones are: musculoskeletal injuries (injuries to muscles, nerves, tendons, joints, cartilage and spinal discs) cuts bruises fractures dislocations. More serious injuries and deaths can also happen. Slip, trip …
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Poor physical environment A poor physical environment means workers are exposed to unpleasant, poor quality or hazardous working environments or conditions. It is more than the office being a little chilly first thing on a cold morning. A poor physical …
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Good work design - Resources
Resources Principles of Good Work Design – A work health and safety handbook Case Study: Good work through effective design Does the evidence and theory support the Good Work Design principles? An educational resource Safe Design Identify, assess …
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Asbestos - Resources
Resources Model Codes of Practice Model Code of Practice: How to safely remove asbestos . Model Code of Practice: How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace Fact sheets and guides Asbestos registers at the workplace guide Asbestos health …
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Public administration and safety Types of work in public administration and safety This industry includes workers who provide: police services investigation and security services fire protection and other emergency services correctional and …
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Accommodation services - Resources
Resources Model Code of Practice model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks . model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks . model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of falls at workplaces Guides Model Code of Practice: …
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Airborne contaminants - Workplace exposure standards/limits
… through the application of basic, well-known exposure controls and using the hierarchy of control measures . You … substitution, isolation, engineering, and administrative controls. You should use PPE to supplement higher-level … provided all other reasonably practicable higher order controls in the hierarchy of control measures have been …