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.

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. 

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 a state of physical, mental or emotional impairment. Fatigue can develop over the short or long term, can prevent people from functioning safely and can have health effects on workers. 

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.  

“Silica” is silicon dioxide, a naturally occurring and widely abundant mineral that is a major component of most rocks, sand and soils. It’s used to make common building materials like concrete, engineered stone (used in kitchen and other benchtops) and bricks.

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 

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 report provides detailed information about:

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