The mining industry has made significant improvements in health and safety over the last decade, reducing the incidence rates of both fatalities and serious injuries. However, the mining industry still has one of the highest rates of fatalities of any industry. 

Major hazard facilities (MHF) are industrial sites such as oil refineries, chemical plants and large fuel or chemical storage sites where large amounts of hazardous materials are stored, handled or processed. If you operate an MHF, you h

Work health and safety (WHS) laws apply when workers work from home just as they do in traditional workplaces such as offices.

Everyone has the right to be safe at work, including volunteers.   

Information on this page will assist PCBUs understand the risks associated with traffic and their duties to workers and others in both the workplaces and on or near public roads. 

In 2018, the Australian Senate conducted an inquiry into the prevention, investigation and prosecution of industrial deaths in Australia, which highlighted the devastating personal, social and economic impacts on bereaved families.

As a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have a duty to consider safe design in a workplace. 

This page will assist you in understanding your duties under the model work health and safety laws, and direct you to supporting documentation. 

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is anything a worker uses or wears to keep them healthy and safe. 

When you make work health and safety (WHS) a priority, workers are more likely to make it a priority too. 

We have developed 5 leadership principles to help you make WHS part of your workplace culture. 

Risk management involves thinking about what could happen if someone is exposed to a hazard and how likely it is to happen. Hazards are things and situations that could harm a person. 

Health monitoring is the monitoring of a worker by doctors to identify changes in their health status because of exposure to certain substances. If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you must provide health monitoring to workers if there is a signifi

As a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have a duty to consider good work design in a workplace. This page will assist you in understanding your duties under the model work health and safety laws, and direct you to supporting documentation.

We partner with BeUpstanding – a free program that aims to prevent health problems caused by sitting for long periods. They conduct research and provide advice to help you meet your duties to manage risks with sitting and standing. 

Most jobs involve some risk of sexual and gender-based harassment. This is a hazard and can cause both psychological and physical harm.

Many people have jobs that require them to work outside. As a worker, you may be exposed to health and safety risks due to the hazards from working outside.

Working in heat can be hazardous and can cause harm to workers. As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and your workplace safe from the risks of working in heat. 

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. 

Each year slips, trips and falls cause thousands of preventable injuries.

Sitting for long periods of time is common in Australian workplaces. 

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. 

Working alone or remotely can increase the health and safety risks of any job. Workers may be isolated from support and assistance because of where or when they’re working, or the nature of their work they are doing. 

Quadwatch is an Australian Government initiative to raise awareness of quad bike safety, bringing together information from: 

Occupational lung diseases are work-related diseases of the respiratory system. Lung diseases can develop rapidly or develop many years after the first exposure to a particular hazard. Some can also lead to cancer.

Noise can damage your hearing if it’s too loud. Both sudden, loud noises, like an explosion, and constant, loud noise, like working near industrial machinery, can damage your hearing.  

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

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

Inorganic lead (lead) and lead compounds are found in many workplaces.

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.

Alcohol and drugs can affect a person’s ability to work safely. This includes medicines that are prescribed or over-the-counter. 

As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and your workplace safe. 

Demolition work is dangerous.  

This page provides information for PCBUs and workers about crystalline silica and some of the legal duties relating to protecting workers from exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). 

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

Health and safety risks for workers can occur when setting up and using concrete placing equipment and when working with wet concrete.

Labels on hazardous chemicals identify hazards and give instructions on how to use them safely. The following pages will tell you if you need to prepare labels for hazardous chemicals, the information that must be on the labels and when WHS labelling for hazardous chemicals is not required.

Bushfire smoke can affect your health and safety at work.

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.

This fact sheet outlines key information on minimising the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for delivery drivers.

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 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 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