Vehicle roll-aways – the unintentional movement of a vehicle that has not been properly immobilised – result in many serious injuries and even fatalities in Australia each year.

Supporting information:

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. 

This is an update on the progress of Safe Work Australia’s crane licensing review consultation that closed on 19 June 2022.

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.

Plant designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers must pass on information about risks with using plant. Find out about managing risks at each step of manufacturing and using plant. 

If you’re involved in plant design, manufacture, supply, operation, storage, demolition and disposal, you have work health and safety (WHS) duties.  

You must register certain types of plant and plant items. This is important for using plant safely in the workplace. 

Plant includes machinery, equipment, appliances, containers, implements and tools and any components or anything fitted or connected to those things.

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.

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

• fitting split rim tyres 

Use this guide for information on scaffold maintenance and inspection, including information on certification that a scaffold is safe to use 

These guide provide information on managing the risks of working with industrial lift trucks:  

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of operating powered forklifts in the workplace. 

This guidance provides information on the potential hazards of plant used in forest

This information sheet provides information on the safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant. 

This document is part of a series which includes: 

This information sheet is about managing the risks of vehicle loading cranes in the workplace. 

his document is part of a series which includes: 

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using powered mobile plant as a crane. 

Using other powered mobile plant as a crane information sheet 

This document is part of a series which includes:  

This guide provides information on  managing the risks of quick hitches for earthmoving machinery. 

Supporting Information

his guide is part of a series including: 

Use this guide to manage the risks of using mobile cranes in the workplace. 

This Guide provides information on inspecting, testing, maintaining and repairing cranes. 

This guide provides information on managing the risks of cranes. 

This information sheet provides guidance on managing the risks of crane-lifted work boxes. 
It is supported by the general guide to cranes and specific guidance on:  

• mobile cranes 

• tower cranes 

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? 

Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces. 

The guide includes information on: 

• using plant in rural workplaces 

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including: 

• determining farm vehicle needs  

This guidance material provides information on managing risks with split rims and compressed air in the workplace: 

Use the split rims general guide if your workplace:  

• fits split rim tyres, or  

These guides provide information on managing the risks of working with cranes: 

This study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.

This guidance material provides information on managing the risks associated with scaffolds and scaffolding work at a workplace.  

These guide provide information on managing the risks of working with industrial lift trucks.  

The following guidance material provides information on the safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant. 

Use this guide to manage risks with tunnelling work, including: 

• tunnel planning and preparation  

• air quality and ventilations systems 

• plant. 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks associated with excavation work. 

This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including: 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risks of demolition work.  

You should use this Code if you: 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks of plant in the workplace.  

Use this Code if you: