Peter, Liz and Wes will provide practical strategies to designing out hazards and explore work health and safety and productivity improvements that result from good design of machinery. 

Plant designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers must pass on information about risks with using plant. Find out about managing risks at each step of manufacturing and using plant. 

If you’re involved in plant design, manufacture, supply, operation, storage, demolition and disposal, you have work health and safety (WHS) duties.  

You must register certain types of plant and plant items. This is important for using plant safely in the workplace. 

Plant includes machinery, equipment, appliances, containers, implements and tools and any components or anything fitted or connected to those things.

This information sheet provides guidance on managing risks with air compressors and air receivers at your workplace, including:

• fitting split rim tyres 

This guidance provides information on how to manage the risks with scaffolds and scaffolding work at a workplace. 

Use this guide to manage risks to workers using suspended (swing stage) scaffolds.

This guide is part of a series which includes:

This guide provides information on managing the risks with scaffolds and scaffolding at the workplace.  

This guide is supported by specific guidance material for: 

• suspended (swing stage) scaffolds 

Use this guide for information on scaffold maintenance and inspection, including information on certification that a scaffold is safe to use 

These guide provide information on managing the risks of working with industrial lift trucks:  

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of operating powered forklifts in the workplace. 

This guidance provides information on the potential hazards of plant used in forest

This information sheet provides information on the safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant. 

This document is part of a series which includes: 

This guide provides information on designing, redesigning or modifying plant to be used in a workplace. 

This guide provides guidance on manufacturing safe plant.

Manufacturers must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, they manufacture plant without health and safety risks to people who:

This Guide provides information for people who import and supply plant. Plant includes machinery, equipment, appliances, containers, implements, tools and components or anything fitted or connected to those things. 

This information sheet is about managing the risks of vehicle loading cranes in the workplace. 

his document is part of a series which includes: 

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using powered mobile plant as a crane. 

Using other powered mobile plant as a crane information sheet 

This document is part of a series which includes:  

This guide provides information on  managing the risks of quick hitches for earthmoving machinery. 

Supporting Information

his guide is part of a series including: 

Use this guide to manage the risks of using mobile cranes in the workplace. 

This Guide provides information on inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing cranes. 

This guide provides information on managing the risks of cranes. 

This information sheet provides guidance on managing the risks of crane-lifted work boxes. 
It is supported by the general guide to cranes and specific guidance on:  

• mobile cranes 

• tower cranes 

Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces. 

The guide includes information on: 

• using plant in rural workplaces 

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including: 

• determining farm vehicle needs  

This guidance material provides information on managing risks with split rims and compressed air in the workplace: 

Use the split rims general guide if your workplace:  

• fits split rim tyres, or  

This guidance material provides information on managing the risks associated with scaffolds and scaffolding work at a workplace.  

These guide provide information on managing the risks of working with industrial lift trucks.  

The following guidance material provides information on the safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant. 

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

Use this Code if you: