The model Code of Practice: Healthcare and social assistance industry provides guidance for duty holders such as employers in the healthcare and social assistance industry on how to meet their work health and safety (WHS) duties and manage risks in their workplaces.
An industrial rope access system is a work positioning system used for gaining access to, and working at, a workface, usually through vertically suspended ropes.
The guide provides information on managing the risks associated with industrial rope access systems, including:
This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to isocyanates.
Isocyanates are a group of highly reactive, organic compounds of the formula R-N=C=O.
This fact sheet provides information on managing electrical risks 
This code contains information about transporting Class 1 explosives by road and rail in Australia.
This sample form may help you manage cash-in-transit security risks at your workplace.
This form is part of a series which includes:
Elevating work platforms (EWP) can be dangerous to work with. Operators of some EWPs need to have a high risk work licence.
Concrete pumping is common in the construction industry. There are multiple ways to pump concrete – all require skills and training. If you operate concrete placing booms, you need a high risk work licence.
Under the model WHS laws, all workplaces must have an emergency plan in place.
The plan must let workers and visitors know what to do in an emergency.
Working with and around elevating work platforms (EWPs) can be dangerous. EWPs need regular inspection, maintenance and testing to be safe to use. As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and workplaces safe from the risks of using EWPs.
Using cranes is complex and dangerous. Every year there are injuries and deaths from work involving cranes.
This Code of Practice provides practical advice for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and other duty holders on managing risks associated with stevedoring. It applies to all workplaces where stevedoring operations are carried out.
Use this guide to manage risks with split rims. You should use this general guide if your workplace:
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.
These information sheets have information on:
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers that have been fumigated with methyl bromide.
Methyl bromide is used as a fumigant to stop pests, like insects, from being imported into Australia.
Use this guide to manage cash-in-transit security risks for businesses and workers in the cash-in-transit industry.
This usually involves armoured or non-armoured vehicle operations.
This information sheet provides advice on what is ‘work of a minor nature’ when testing, maintaining or repairing a building or structure.
This information sheet provides information about what should be included in workplace specific induction training and task specific training for construction work.
This information sheet helps you prepare a safe work method statement (SWMS) for high risk construction work.
Use this guide to manage risks associated with cattle handling at a workplace including:
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.
Use this information sheet if you, or the workers you manage, unpack shipping containers.
This information sheet provides information on managing risks associated with steel erection work including:
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who has responsibilities at the design and planning stage?
This information sheet provides information on managing the risks associated with working on roofs including:
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working at height
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roof access
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fragile roofs
Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces.
The guide includes information on:
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using plant in rural workplaces
This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including:
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determining farm vehicle needs
Use this guide to manage the risks of isocyanates at your workplace.
Isocyanates are hazardous chemicals used in manufacturing materials, like:
These information sheets provide information on managing the risks in construction workplaces :
Use this guide to manage the risks to inexperienced workers and others, such as volunteers and visitors, when interacting with horses.
Horses are a significant safety risk at work. The most common causes of horse related death or injury are:
Use this guide to manage risks to workers in cable logging operations.
Cable logging is a method of extracting timber or yarding system using a stationary machine.
This guide is part of a collection of guides on:
Use this guide to manage health and safety risks associated with high pressure water jetting operations.
Use this guide if you work with refractory ceramic fibres (RCF) or high biopersistence fibres and need to manage the health and safety risks to workers.
This report provides an overview of the work health and safety status within the road freight transport industry, an industry primarily engaged in transporting freight using trucks on public roads. Road freight transport is a sub-sector of the road transport industry.
This fact sheet will help you understand what is a ‘minor contamination’ of asbestos-containing dust or debris in the workplace.
It should be read together with the relevant model Code of Practices:
Several European studies have reported high levels of residual chemical levels in sealed shipping containers. The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service found similar results when testing containers in Australia.
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 the risk of falls in housing construction.
In this model Code, the word:
This guide gives MHF operators information on how to write a safety case outline for their facility.
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