Job demands High job demands High job demands means high levels of physical, mental or emotional effort are needed to do the job. It means more than sometimes ‘being a little busy’. High job demands become a hazard when severe (e.g. very high), prolonged …
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COVID-19 - WHS duties
WHS duties As a PCBU, you have a responsibility to keep people safe in the workplace. This includes workers while they are at work (including employees, contractors and volunteers) and others (e.g. visitors or customers) at your workplace. You must do …
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Food 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 Model Code of Practice: Work health and …
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Retail 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 model Code of Practice: Work health and …
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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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Psychosocial hazards A psychosocial hazard is anything that could cause psychological harm (e.g. harm someone’s mental health). Common psychosocial hazards at work include: job demands low job control poor support lack of role clarity poor …
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Agriculture - Resources
Resources Agriculture reports Agriculture: Priority industry snapshot (2018) Work health and safety in the agriculture industry Model Code of Practice How to manage work health and safety risks First aid in the workplace Code of practice guides …
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Health care and social assistance - WHS duties
WHS duties 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 of plant, substances or structures an officer. The model WHS …
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Sexual and gender-based harassment - WHS duties
WHS duties PCBU duties A PCBU must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, workers and other persons are not exposed to risks to their psychological or physical health and safety. This includes risks from psychosocial hazards such as sexual and …
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Agriculture - 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 …