This guide is for workers who use hazardous chemicals.  

This guide is for people conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) with workers who may e exposed to hazardous chemicals.

Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.  

Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.  

Australia uses the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to classify and label chemicals.

This fact sheet provides guidance for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) to deliver white card training through connected real-time delivery due to COVID-19.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers to uranium.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to trichloroethylene.  

This guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to tetrachloroethylene.  

Tetrachloroethylene (CAS 127-18-4) is a colourless, volatile, non-flammable, chlorinated hydrocarbon.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK).  

MIBK (CAS 108-10-1) is a colourless, flammable liquid with a sweet smell that is moderately soluble in water.  

The guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to butanone.  

Butanone (CAS 78-93-3) is also known as methyl ethyl ketone (MEK). It’s a colourless, flammable liquid with a sweet acetone-like smell. 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to fluorides.  

Fluorine (as F2) (CAS 7782-41-4): 

• is a pale-yellow gas at normal temperature 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to dichloromethane.  

Dichloromethane (CAS 75-09-2) is a colourless liquid with a sweet smell.  

Examples of work with dichloromethane include: 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to xylene.  

Xylene (mixed isomers; CAS 1330-20-7) is a natural part of petroleum and coal tar. It is colourless, flammable and has a sweet smell. 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to toluene.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to styrene.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to ethyl benzene.  

Ethyl benzene (CAS 100-41-4) is a colourless, flammable liquid with a petrol-like smell. It is a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.  

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to cyclophosphamide.  

Cyclophosphamide (CAS 50-18-0) is: 

• an anti-cancer drug used in chemotherapy and as an immunosuppressant 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to carbon disulphide.  

Pure carbon disulfide (CAS 75-15-0): 

• is a clear, colourless liquid that has a sweet, pleasant smell 

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to beryllium.  

Beryllium (CAS 7440-41-7) is a grey metal that is found in nature as a mineral with silica or with aluminium and silica.  

Antimony (CAS 7440-36-0) is a brittle, silver white metallic element. You can find antimony (Sb) in different oxidation states, like free metal, trivalent (Sb[III]) and pentavalent (Sb[V]) oxidation. 

This guide provides information on how the model work health and safety (WHS) laws apply to volunteers. It outlines how volunteers can meet their work health and safety duties and explains what volunteers can expect from the organisations they volunteer for. 

This document outlines the criteria to assign a skin notation to a chemical. 

This document is about a new notation for ‘immediately dangerous to life or health’ (IDLH) in the 

This information is on the 

This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list. 

You can also see the: 

This document details primary and secondary sources of health-based data used to inform recommendations for workplace exposure standards (WES) for hazardous chemicals and sources for recommendations for notations.

Supporting information

This document outlines the criteria for how to find hazardous chemicals that could be added to or removed from the 

This document identifies appropriate domestic and international sources that support the

This document is about a process to recommend health-based values and advisory notations for chemicals in the 

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.

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

• fitting split rim tyres 

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

These information sheets have information on:

This information sheet provides information on high risk work licensing requirements when carrying out dogging work. 

Use this information sheet if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace. 

This information sheet is part of a workplace vibration collection, including: 

Workers using hand-held power tools – such as jack-hammers, chainsaws, grinders, drills, riveters and impact wrenches – may be exposed to harmful levels of hard-arm vibration (HAV).  

This information sheet provides information about managing traffic risks at a workplace, including work on or near a public road. 

This document is part of a series including: 

Managing traffic is important for workplace health and safety. This checklist can help you identify potential traffic hazards at your workplace.  

This checklist helps you put in place traffic control measures in your workplace. 

This checklist is part of a collection with: