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Workplace health and safety alert
Managing drowning risks at publicly accessible pools
Could you live with someone drowning on your watch? Swimming pools are used mainly by children and young people as an avenue for having fun. While the death of anyone from drowning is a tragedy, the death of a child or a young person is catastrophic. There are substantial penalties in the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (Act) if it is found that a pool operator hasn't taken adequate steps to prevent a person drowning.
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Workplace health and safety alert
JLG elevating work platform wheel failure
The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the associated risks if a wheel falls off an elevating work platform (EWP).
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Workplace health and safety alert
Carbon monoxide poisoning, hookah compressors and diving
Workplace health and safety alerts for alerting people in the diving industry to the hazards caused by air intake hoses on surface breathing air systems
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Workplace health and safety alert
Maintaining sufficient clearances when lifting or lowering the crane hook or load close to structures
The purpose of this alert is to highlight the importance of maintaining sufficient clearances between cranes and other plant and structures to avoid contact or collision.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Industrial rope access safety
The purpose of this alert is to highlight the risks associated with industrial rope access, particularly the methods used to clean the exterior windows of multi-story buildings.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Risk of being hit by moving parts of an aerial amusement ride
Workplace health and safety alert regarding risks associated with being hit by moving parts of an aerial amusement ride.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Safe systems of work when using vehicle lifting devices
The purpose of this alert is to highlight the importance of safe systems of work when performing maintenance on plant, following a fatality that occurred when a worker was replacing parts on a vehicle lifting device.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Securing loading ramps for mobile plant
The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the risks associated with not effectively securing loading ramps for mobile plant.
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Workplace health and safety alert
Storage and handling of sheet materials
The purpose of this alert is to highlight the hazards and risks from the storage and handling of sheet materials stacked on their edges.