Safe Work Australia has updated the model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace to include guidance on vehicle roll-aways and safe immobilis

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Tractors are a leading cause of fatalities on Australian farms. Download this infographic to learn more about tractor safety.

Safe Work Australia has published new guidance to assist persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) to manage the health and safety risks of industrial rope access systems. 

An industrial rope access system is a work positioning system used for gaining access to, and working at, a workface, usually through vertically suspended ropes.

The guide provides information on managing the risks associated with industrial rope access systems, including:

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. 

Working with cranes is high-risk work. Find out the process for managing risks with cranes, including how to do an emergency plan.  

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.

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

Use this guide to manage risks with split rims. You should use this general guide if your workplace:

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 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 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 study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.

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: