Safe Work Australia has released an interactive guide on managing the risks associated with ground conditions for the safe set up and operation of mobile plant.

The guide is aimed at people who have a responsibility for mobile plant such as mobile cranes and elevating work platforms in the workplace. This includes those who operate, work with, or hire mobile plant, and employers of workers who work with mobile plant.

Safe Work Australia has released the model Code of Practice: Elevating Work Platforms. The model Code provides practical guidance for PCBUs (employers) and other duty holders on how to manage health and safety risks related to elevating work platforms.

This model Code of Practice provides practical guidance to employers and other duty holders on how to manage health and safety risks related to elevating work platforms.
 

This guide provides practical information to persons conducting a business or undertaking and others on how to manage the risks of working with EWPs.

Working with elevating work platforms (EWPs) can be dangerous. Identifying hazards with EWPs is the first step in managing risk.

EWPs can cause serious injury. Following your work health and safety (WHS) duties will help you keep workers and other people safe. 

Elevating work platforms (EWP) can be dangerous to work with. Operators of some EWPs need to have a high-risk work licence.  

These resources provide information on working in the construction industry. 

Schedule 3 of the model WHS Regulations sets out high risk work licences and classes of high risk work. 

Working with and around elevating work platforms (EWPs) can be dangerous. EWPs need regular inspection, maintenance and testing to be safe to use.

A preventative inspection, maintenance and testing program helps to ensure an elevating work platform (EWP) is safe to use.  

This Code of Practice provides practical advice for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and other duty holders on managing risks associated with stevedoring. It applies to all workplaces where stevedoring operations are carried out.

This information sheet helps you prepare a safe work method statement (SWMS) for high risk construction work. 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks associated with excavation work. 

This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including: 

This model Code of Practice provides practical guidance on managing electrical risks in the workplace. 

Use this guide if you: 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on how to meet the standards of work health and safety (WHS) required under the WHS Act and Regulations in relation to construction work. 

In this model Code, the word:

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks of plant in the workplace.  

Use this Code if you: 

This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction.

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of a falls by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury.