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Most jobs involve some psychosocial hazards. These are the hazards that can harm workers’ mental health. 

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Most jobs involve doing some kind of manual tasks. These include lifting, pushing, pulling or carrying. 

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Fatigue is more than feeling tired and drowsy. In a work context, fatigue is mental and/or physical exhaustion that reduces your ability to perform your work safely and effectively.

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Using cranes is complex and dangerous. Every year there are injuries and deaths from work involving cranes. 

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Workplace bullying is repeated, unreasonable behaviour directed at a worker (or group of workers).  

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This information sheet provides guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), such as employers, about duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws and how to manage the risks of family and domestic violence at the workplace. 
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This information sheet provides advice for workers about duties under the model work health and safety (WHS) laws and what to do if workers experience workplace violence or aggression.
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This information sheet provides simple and practical guidance to support small business meet their work health and safety (WHS) duties to manage health and safety risks from workplace violence and aggression.  
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This guide provides information for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), such as employers, on how to manage the risk of violence and aggression in the workplace, including gendered violence. 
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This information sheet provides advice for workers about duties under WHS laws and what to do if workers experience or witness sexual harassment at the workplace. 
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This information sheet provides simple, clear and practical guidance to support small businesses meet their work health and safety (WHS) duties to manage health and safety risks from sexual harassment.
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This fact sheet has been prepared as part of the 2018 National Action Plan on Endometriosis. It aims to increase awareness of the prevalence and impact this chronic disease has on workers and its potential impact on workplace safety.
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Use this guide to manage cash-in-transit security risks for businesses and workers in the cash-in-transit industry. 

This usually involves armoured or non-armoured vehicle operations.

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Use this guide to manage risks to workers in cable logging operations.  

Cable logging is a method of extracting timber or yarding system using a stationary machine.  

This guide is part of a collection of guides on: 

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This guide was developed and published prior to amendments to the model WHS Regulations in 2022. The guide is an archived document and is provided for background only.

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Workplace bullying is a risk to health and safety. It can occur wherever people work together in all types of workplaces. It is best dealt with by taking steps to prevent it from occurring and responding quickly if it does occur.

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This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals for persons conducting a business or undertaking who use chemicals in their workplace.

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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.

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If you’re a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), this model Code of Practice provides practical guidance on how to effectively consult with workers about work health and safety and meet your duties under the work health and safety (WHS) Act.  

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Introduced by SafeWork SA’s Bryan Russell, this video outlines the ‘Seven Steps for Small Business’ approach from the South Australian work health and safety regulator.

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Watch this video to see two young workers going about their day’s work, and how their interactions with their supervisors can have such an effect on the outcome – for good or bad.

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