This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to carbon disulphide.
Pure carbon disulfide (CAS 75-15-0):
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is a clear, colourless liquid that has a sweet, pleasant smell
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 outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the workplace exposure standards (WES) list.
You can also see the:
Use this guide to manage risks with split rims. You should use this general guide if your workplace:
Workers can experience whole body vibration (WBV) at the workplace.
Use this guide if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This guide is part of a workplace vibration collection, which includes:
Workers can experience hand-arm vibration at the workplace.
Use this guide if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This guide is part of a workplace vibration collection, which includes:
Workers can be exposed to whole body vibration (WBV) at the workplace.
Use this guide if you are a worker who is or likely to be exposed to WBV, or if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This Guide provides information on managing the risks of unauthorised persons working near low voltage overhead service lines near structures and buildings.
A random, population-based sample of 5,528 Australian workers participated in the Australian Work Exposure Study (AWES). Workers answered questions about the tasks they completed and the controls used at work.
This guide will help you identify low density asbestos fibreboard (LDB) and will provide you with information about managing and handling LDB.
Workers can experience hand-arm vibration (HAV) at the workplace.
Use this guide if you are a worker who is or is likely to be exposed to HAV, or if you measure and assess vibration at the workplace.
This guide is part of a workplace vibration collection, which includes:
This handbook provides guidance on good work design. It includes the
This paper reports on the attitudes of Australian workers towards accepting risk taking and rule breaking in the workplace.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of chemical compounds formed during the incomplete combustion of organic material.
The Australian Work Exposures Study (AWES) was a national survey conducted by the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research (WAIMR) in 2011–12 that investigated work-related exposures among Australian workers to 38 known or suspected carcinogens.
Use this guide to manage health and safety risks associated with high pressure water jetting operations.
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.
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 guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to 4,4'-Methylene Bis (2Chloroaniline) [MOCA].
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to vinyl chloride.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to thallium.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP).
Pure pentachlorophenol (CAS 87-86-5) is a colourless or white, needle-like crystal.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to inorganic mercury.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to inorganic lead.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to creosote
Creosote (CAS 8001-58-9; 8021-39-4; 8007-45-2) is the name for products that are mixtures of many chemicals.
This guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to chromium.
Chromium (CAS 7440-47-3) is a steel-grey metal that exists as:
a free metal
This guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to cadmium.
The guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to benzene.
The guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to asbestos.
Examples of work with asbestos include:
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to arsenic.
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to acrylonitrile.
Acrylonitrile (CAS 107-13-1) is a clear, colourless, highly flammable liquid with a mild, bad odour. You may know it as vinyl cyanide.
Use this guide if you manage cyanide in the workplace.
Exposure to cyanide can cause cyanide poisoning to workers who store, handle and use cyanide.
Use this guide if you manage foundry work in the workplace.
Foundry work involves casting molten metal into a mould. It presents a range of work health and safety risks that need to be managed.