Rooftop solar installation work involves serious work health and safety risks, including working at heights, falling objects, heat stress and working with electricity.

Our Guide to managing the risks of rooftop solar installation work assists duty holders, primarily PCBUs, to manage the risks to health and safety associated with rooftop solar installation work. 

Safe Work Australia has published updated work health and safety guidance for tree work.

The Guide to managing the risks of tree work updates the previous Guide to managing risks of tree trimming and removal work. 

Working at heights is a high risk activity and a leading cause of death and serious injury in Australia.

As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you must eliminate the risk of a fall. If elimination isn’t possible, you must provide adequate protection.

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:

Working at heights is a high risk activity, and a leading cause of death and serious injury in Australia. 

As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and workplaces safe from the risks of working at height. 

Scaffolding work can be dangerous. As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and workplaces safe from the risks of scaffolds and scaffolding work. 

Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.

These information sheets have information on:

This guide was previously titled Guide to managing risks of tree trimming and removal work.

The re-named and updated guide provides information on managing risks associated with tree trimming and removal work, including:  

This information sheet provides information on managing risks associated with steel erection work including:  

• who has responsibilities at the design and planning stage? 

This information sheet provides information on managing the risks associated with working on roofs including: 

• working at height 

• roof access 

• fragile roofs 

This project was undertaken by Instinct and Reason Pty Ltd under commission from Safe Work Australia. The report describes the findings of a qualitative research study on the structural metal product manufacturing industry—an industry with a high rate of work-related injury and illness.

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of falls in housing construction. 

In this model Code, the word:  

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. 

The transport industry has a high rate of injuries and deaths from workers falling from trucks and trailers.