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Creating safe work Toggle menu for Creating safe work
- Good work design Toggle menu for Good work design
  - Systems thinking for health, safety and wellbeing
- Business and employer responsibilities
- Workers' rights and responsibilities
- Management commitment
- Consulting with workers
- Managing risks Toggle menu for Managing risks
  - First aid and emergency plans
  - Personal protective equipment (PPE) Toggle menu for Personal protective equipment (PPE)
    
    Respiratory protective equipment (RPE)
  - Local exhaust ventilation (LEV) Toggle menu for Local exhaust ventilation (LEV)
    
    Video on what lev is, the key components and how it works courtesy of hse
- Establishing policies and procedures
- Safety roles and duties Toggle menu for Safety roles and duties
  - Health and safety representatives and health and safety committees Toggle menu for Health and safety representatives and health and safety committees
    
    Provisional improvement notices (PINs)
    
    Provision of information to health and safety representatives
- Safety capability, leadership and culture Toggle menu for Safety capability, leadership and culture
  - Building safety capability
  - Systems (processes and structures) Toggle menu for Systems (processes and structures)
    
    Organisational safety prioritisation
    
    Organisational safety resources and training
    
    Organisational safety communication and change management
    
    Involvement in recovery and return to work (RTW) planning
    
    Process clarity
  - Culture (leadership and teamwork) Toggle menu for Culture (leadership and teamwork)
    
    Social support for safety
    
    Team coordination and shared understanding
    
    Team climate to speak up
    
    Injury illness and stigma
    
    Supervisor support
    
    Safety leadership and culture
    
    Safety climate and safety culture
    
    The LEAD model
    
    Safety Leadership at Work
  - Competence (skills and motivation) Toggle menu for Competence (skills and motivation)
    
    Workers safety promotion and participation
    
    Worker mindful compliance
    
    Worker mistake-oriented proactivity and error management
    
    Help-seeking willingness
    
    Creating a culture where workers will seek help
  - Safety capability survey
  - Resources
- Training and supervision
- Reporting safety
- Workers' compensation and return to work
- Healthy and safe work environment
- Hot desk hygiene
Hazards Toggle menu for Hazards
- Electricity Toggle menu for Electricity
  - Electrical products and equipment Toggle menu for Electrical products and equipment
    
    Testing and maintaining tools and equipment
    
    Testing and tagging of electrical equipment
    
    Selling electrical equipment Toggle menu for Selling electrical equipment
    
    Equipment safety
    Equipment certification and registration
    Don't DIY warning signs
    Ongoing responsibilities
    Selling second-hand
    
    Hiring electrical equipment
    
    Electrical product recalls Toggle menu for Electrical product recalls
    
    Urgent product recall – 45cm high velocity pedestal fan - Contempo and Adesso brands
    Cherub baby anywhere warmer pro
    Mecca 240V single vertical heated towel rail
    Recall of Brilliant Lighting ceiling mounted LED batten luminaires
    Recall of LG Energy Solution Australia Pty Ltd ESS Home Energy Storage System Batteries
    Ceiling luminaires
    Room heater
    Mist fans
    Fractal wood burning equipment
    DC solar isolator switches
    SKL electrical cables prohibited
    Infinity and Olsent brand cable recall
    Recall of Dielle YK78 Model Residual Current Device (RCD)
    Eaton Quicklag ELQ-TW earth leakage circuit breaker
    Recalls and prohibition notice on Salzer solar DC isolator
    Recall of Clipsal socket outlet 10mA Residual Current Device (RCD) and service panel 10mA RCD
    E Cables brand cables
    Submersible pumps
    GoodWe EHB series and GEH series Solar Inverters
    Ariston ARIHPWH-200 and ARIHPWH-280 Heat Pump Water Heaters
    Preowned Xbox and Preowned PlayStation Consoles and Power Cords
    Giantz 2.5mm Twin Core Electric Cable
    
    Electrical safety at work
    
    Prescribed Electrical Equipment
  - Hazardous electrical environments Toggle menu for Hazardous electrical environments
    
    Arc flash safety - Mark's story
    
    Voltmeter measurements for foil insulation
    
    Electrical work in declared disasters
    
    Identifying high voltage hazards
    
    Installing smoke alarms
    
    Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
    
    Cathodic protection systems Toggle menu for Cathodic protection systems
    
    Registering cathodic protection systems
    
    Ceiling spaces
    
    Carrying out work in or entering domestic roof spaces
  - Industry-specific electrical hazards Toggle menu for Industry-specific electrical hazards
    
    Working on metal water services
    
    Electrical safety in the construction industry
    
    Electrical safety in the rural industry
    
    Renewable energy generation
  - Powerlines and electrical cables Toggle menu for Powerlines and electrical cables
    
    Exclusion zones
  - Electric vehicle guidance
  - Electrical work on or near energised electrical equipment
  - Testing
- Hazards index Toggle menu for Hazards index
- Hazardous chemicals Toggle menu for Hazardous chemicals
  - Working with large quantities of hazardous chemicals Toggle menu for Working with large quantities of hazardous chemicals
    
    Are you a manifest quantity workplace?
    
    Are you a possible major hazard facility?
  - Managing hazchem risks Toggle menu for Managing hazchem risks
    
    Hazardous chemicals register
    
    Labelling and safety data sheets Toggle menu for Labelling and safety data sheets
    
    Understanding safety data sheets safe work australia
    
    Managing incompatible goods Toggle menu for Managing incompatible goods
    
    Storing incompatible hazardous chemicals
    Segregation techniques
    Segregation tool
    Other issues
    
    Storage and handling systems
    
    Health monitoring Toggle menu for Health monitoring
    
    Hazardous chemicals requiring health monitoring
    Health monitoring when you work with hazardous chemicals guide
    Health monitoring for exposure to hazardous chemicals guide for medical practitioners
    Health monitoring for exposure to hazardous chemicals guide for persons conducting a business or undertaking
    
    Emergency planning
    
    Land use safety planning
    
    Hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods Toggle menu for Hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods
    
    Globally Harmonised System
    
    Chemicals of security concern Toggle menu for Chemicals of security concern
    
    National security hotline
    National code of practice for chemicals of security concern2
    National code of practice for chemicals of security concern
  - Specific hazchem risks Toggle menu for Specific hazchem risks
    
    Abandoned underground tanks
    
    Controlling fire and explosion risks
    
    Hazardous chemicals in pipelines
    
    Carcinogens
  - Specific hazchem workplaces Toggle menu for Specific hazchem workplaces
    
    Aviation refuellers and regional airports
    
    Events (short-term fuel storage)
    
    Laboratories
    
    Pool chemical retailers Toggle menu for Pool chemical retailers
    
    Pool chemical retailers FAQs
    
    Service stations
  - Specific hazardous chemicals Toggle menu for Specific hazardous chemicals
    
    Ammonium nitrate Toggle menu for Ammonium nitrate
    
    Ammonium storage structures
    Ammonium nitrate storage and handling
    
    Anhydrous ammonia
    
    Flammable and combustible liquids
    
    Flammable refrigerants Toggle menu for Flammable refrigerants
    
    Flammable refrigerant gases position paper
    Flammable refrigerants safety guide 2013
    
    Gases in cylinders Toggle menu for Gases in cylinders
    
    Transporting gas cylinders or cryogenic liquid
    
    Hydrogen
  - Hazchem regulations Toggle menu for Hazchem regulations
    
    Environmentally relevant activities
    
    Classifying hazardous chemicals
    
    Globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals ghs
    
    Australian code for the transport of dangerous goods by road and rail adg code
  - Agencies and contacts Toggle menu for Agencies and contacts
    
    Hazchem regulatory agencies Queensland
    
    Hazchem national and international agencies
    
    Hazchem links including dangerous goods
- Hazardous exposures Toggle menu for Hazardous exposures
  - Airborne contaminants Toggle menu for Airborne contaminants
    
    Asbestos Toggle menu for Asbestos
    
    Guidance for retailers for return and disposal of asbestos-containing sand products
    Sites that have received soil potentially contaminated with asbestos
    Update on asbestos in soil
    Update on asbestos in fire doors
  - Biological hazards Toggle menu for Biological hazards
    
    Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in early childhood education and care services
    
    Diseases from animals Toggle menu for Diseases from animals
    
    Avian influenza
    Q fever
    Hendra virus
    Japanese encephalitis virus
    Psittacosis
    Influenza A viruses in pigs
    Work with bird and bat droppings
    Infection control guidelines for animal contact
    Leptospirosis
    Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV)
    
    Ebolavirus disease (EVD)
    
    Immunisation in early childhood education and care services
    
    Infection risks from flood recovery and response work
    
    Infection risks from work with sewage
    
    Latex allergy
    
    Legionnaires’ disease
    
    Legionella risks from work with potting mix and compost
    
    Lyngbya (blue-green algae)
    
    Managing mould
    
    Melioidosis
    
    Mosquito borne diseases
    
    Occupational viral hepatitis
    
    Skin infections at work
    
    Skin penetrating injuries
  - Bushfire smoke
  - Carbon monoxide in breathing air during air compressor use
  - Carcinogens
  - Hazardous dusts
  - Heat stress
  - Lead Toggle menu for Lead
    
    Working with lead Toggle menu for Working with lead
    
    Health monitoring when you work with hazardous chemicals guide
    
    Working with lead-based paint
  - Nanotechnology Toggle menu for Nanotechnology
    
    What laws apply
    
    Are nanoparticles dangerous?
    
    Nanotechnology in the workplace
    
    Classification of engineered nanomaterials
    
    Definitions
    
    Risks of nanoparticles
    
    Nanomaterial control banding risk assessment
    
    Register of nanomaterial use and storage
  - Noise Toggle menu for Noise
    
    Audiometric testing frequently asked questions
  - Non-potable water
  - Pesticides
  - Respirable crystalline silica Toggle menu for Respirable crystalline silica
    
    Respirable crystalline silica (general) Toggle menu for Respirable crystalline silica (general)
    
    Respirable crystalline silica audit campaign report: Stage 3
    
    Construction dust: respirable crystalline silica
    
    Work-related respiratory diseases
  - Stationary masonry saws
  - Handheld power saws
  - Handheld power saws for cutting fibre-cement board with a blade diameter of 200mm or less
  - Walk-behind saws
  - Drivable saws
  - Core saws or drills
  - Handheld and stand-mounted drills
  - Dowel drilling rigs for concrete
  - Vehicle-mounted drilling rigs for rock and concrete
  - Jackhammers or handheld powered chipping tools
  - Handheld grinders for mortar removal
  - Handheld grinders for tasks other than mortar removal
  - Walk-behind milling machines and floor grinders
  - Small drivable milling machines less than half lane
  - Large drivable milling machines (half lane and larger)
  - Crushing machines
  - Heavy equipment and utility vehicles for grading and excavating tasks
  - Heavy equipment and utility vehicles for demo activities
  - Dry sweeping
  - Compressed air and blowers
  - Skin disorders and exposures
  - Spray painting and powder coating
  - Sun safety and skin cancer
  - Welding
  - Phosphine gas
- Hazardous manual tasks Toggle menu for Hazardous manual tasks
  - What are hazardous manual tasks? Toggle menu for What are hazardous manual tasks?
    
    Managing hazardous manual tasks
    
    Identify and assess hazardous manual task risks
    
    Hazardous manual task training Toggle menu for Hazardous manual task training
    
    Is lifting training effective?
    
    After a hazardous manual task injury
  - Working with computers Toggle menu for Working with computers
    
    Selecting and adjusting your chair Toggle menu for Selecting and adjusting your chair
    
    Selecting and purchasing office chairs
    
    Setting up your workstation
    
    Visual comfort for computer work
    
    Working from home on your computer
    
    Staying active while working on your computer
    
    Mobile computer work
  - Participative ergonomics for manual tasks (PErforM) guidance for high-risk industries Toggle menu for Participative ergonomics for manual tasks (PErforM) guidance for high-risk industries
    
    PErforM resources
    
    PErforM webinars and workshops Toggle menu for PErforM webinars and workshops
    
    PErforM webinar series
  - Guidance for high risk industries Toggle menu for Guidance for high risk industries
    
    Health care and social assistance
    
    People handling Toggle menu for People handling
    
    Ceiling hoists
    Home care ohs fact sheets pdf, 5.54 mb
    Disability services ohs fact sheets pdf, 4.2 mb
    
    Manual tasks in construction
  - Hazardous manual task laws
  - Hazardous manual task resources Toggle menu for Hazardous manual task resources
    
    Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022
  - Musculoskeletal disorders frequently asked questions
- Health and wellbeing
- Mental health
- Workplace hazards Toggle menu for Workplace hazards
  - Agriculture Toggle menu for Agriculture
    
    Animal handling
    
    Casual workers
    
    Cattle handling Toggle menu for Cattle handling
    
    Cattle crushes
    
    Children on farms
    
    Construction in the agriculture, foresty and fisheries workplaces
    
    Driving plant on the road
    
    Elevating work platforms Toggle menu for Elevating work platforms
    
    Design registration of elevating work platforms (EWPs)
    Maintenance, inspection and repair of elevating working platforms (EWPs)
    
    Emergency preparedness and first aid
    
    Fruit harvesting and packaging
    
    Hazardous chemicals
    
    Health and safety tips for the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry
    
    Horse handling
    
    Machinery and equipment Toggle menu for Machinery and equipment
    
    Farm vehicles and harvesters
    Machinery guarding
    Power take-off shafts
    Quad bikes and side-by-side vehicles
    Rim wheels
    Roll-over protection for rural mobile plant
    Tractors
    
    Manual tasks and noise
    
    Pig handling
    
    Remote and isolated work
    
    Safer field palletising on harvest aids
    
    Farm vehicles and harvesters
    
    Palletising including field palletising on harvest aids
    
    Safer palletising
    
    Loading and unloading cattle
    
    Fixed plant in packing sheds
    
    Safer sorting and grading on conveyors
    
    Safer ways to work out of produce bins
    
    Safety of older farmers
    
    Serious about farm safety
    
    Sheep handling and shearing
    
    Silo safety
    
    Stockyard design
    
    Working with hay bales
    
    Sun safety at work
  - Ban on Engineered Stone: Protecting Workers’ Health
  - Child care Toggle menu for Child care
    
    Immunisation in early childhood education and care services
  - Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis (CWP)
  - Construction Toggle menu for Construction
    
    Designers
    
    House builders Toggle menu for House builders
    
    Owner builders
    Installation of solar panels
    
    Principal contractors
    
    Work health and safety management plans
    
    Asbestos
    
    Concrete pumping Toggle menu for Concrete pumping
    
    Avoiding pipeline failure
    Compliance inspections and maintenance
    Controlling noise and fumes
    Hose whip
    Planning and preparation of site
    Safety training and supervision
    
    Confined spaces
    
    Cranes
    
    Excavations
    
    Healthy diet and lifestyle
    
    Lighting
    
    Mental wellbeing and suicide prevention
    
    Manual tasks in construction
    
    Mobile plant
    
    Nail guns
    
    Q fever risks and construction work
    
    Scaffolding Toggle menu for Scaffolding
    
    Zip ties on scaffolding
    Scaffolding hop-up bracket tie bars
    
    Security
    
    Tunnelling
    
    Tilt-up and precast construction
    
    Work at heights
    
    Working on roofs and in ceiling spaces
    
    Site specific induction
  - Dangers in your workplace Toggle menu for Dangers in your workplace
    
    Abrasive blasting Toggle menu for Abrasive blasting
    
    Particulate matter, solvents, noise and vibration
    Abrasive blasting general health and safety issues
    
    Burns and scalds
    
    Confined spaces
    
    Cranes
    
    Demolition Toggle menu for Demolition
    
    Asbestos and demolition
    
    Falls from one level to another
    
    Forklifts
    
    Health care and social assistance hazards
    
    High risk work
    
    Knives at work Toggle menu for Knives at work
    
    Sharps safety programs
    
    Lighting
    
    Non-potable water
    
    Storms and floods Toggle menu for Storms and floods
    
    List of National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accredited laboratories for asbestos sample analysis
    
    Work at heights
  - Diving and snorkelling Toggle menu for Diving and snorkelling
    
    Boarding facilities
    
    Decompression management
    
    Diving and snorkelling equipment
    
    Diving and snorkelling risk management
    
    Diving emergencies
    
    Diving injury and illness
    
    Dive plans
    
    Entry and exit from the water
    
    Head counts
    
    Log keeping
    
    Marine stingers
    
    Medical fitness for diving
    
    Qualifications and competency Toggle menu for Qualifications and competency
    
    Examples of competencies for diving work
    
    Supervision for diving and snorkelling
    
    Vessels
  - Firearms, weapons and stunts on set
  - Hazardous area classification (fire and explosion prevention) Toggle menu for Hazardous area classification (fire and explosion prevention)
    
    Hazardous area assurance of conformity equipment
  - Major Hazard Facilities (MHF) Toggle menu for Major Hazard Facilities (MHF)
    
    Guides for Major Hazard Facilities
    
    Major Hazard Facilities regulation and forms
    
    Major Hazard Facility operators Toggle menu for Major Hazard Facility operators
    
    Majaor hazard facilities guides
    
    Major hazard team activities
  - Regulation on processing crystalline silica substances
  - Slips, trips and falls Toggle menu for Slips, trips and falls
    
    Risk management
    
    After an injury
    
    Contaminants
    
    Cleaning
    
    Floor and ground surfaces Toggle menu for Floor and ground surfaces
    
    Flooring hse uk
    Flooring types - characteristics & applications
    As 1428 set 2010 design for access and mobility series
    As 4663 2013 slip resistant measurement of existing pedestrian surfaces
    As 4586 2013 slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials
    Hb 1971999 an introductory guide to the slip resistance of pedestrian surface materials
    Sa hb 1982014 guide to the specification and testing of slip resistance of pedestrian surfaces
    
    Housekeeping
    
    Obstacles
    
    Environment Toggle menu for Environment
    
    Asnzs 1680 series interior lighting
    
    People and activity
    
    External areas Toggle menu for External areas
    
    Building code of australia
    As 1657 2013 fixed platforms, walkways, stairways and ladders design construction and installation
    
    Footwear Toggle menu for Footwear
    
    Asnzs 2210.12010 occupational protective footwear part 1 guide to selection, care and use
    
    Design considerations
    
    Safe design and use of stairs
  - Transport Toggle menu for Transport
    
    Securing loads on trucks
    
    Safe handling when securing loads on trucks
    
    Load restraint devices to tension chains
    
    Safe design and use of cattle crates
    
    Safety with tyre fitting
  - Young workers Toggle menu for Young workers
    
    Worksafe wa education materials
Mental health Toggle menu for Mental health
- Mentally healthy workplaces toolkit
- Psychosocial hazards Toggle menu for Psychosocial hazards
- People at Work
- Mental Health Week
- Mentally healthy workplaces workshops
- Mental health resources Toggle menu for Mental health resources
- Social partners
- Relevant legislation
Health and wellbeing Toggle menu for Health and wellbeing
- Why take care of health and wellbeing at work? Toggle menu for Why take care of health and wellbeing at work?
- Managing chronic disease at work Toggle menu for Managing chronic disease at work
- Supporting an ageing workforce
- Sedentary work
- Healthy workplace audit tool
- Case studies and films
- Healthy work survey
- Health and wellbeing resources Toggle menu for Health and wellbeing resources
  - New approach to mental health in resources sector
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Framework to manage the risks of alcohol and other drugs at work
Incidents and notifications Toggle menu for Incidents and notifications
- Legacy engineered stone notifications
- Notify us of an incident Toggle menu for Notify us of an incident
  - Notify Workplace Health and Safety Queensland or the Electrical Safety Office Toggle menu for Notify Workplace Health and Safety Queensland or the Electrical Safety Office
    
    Confirm if an incident is notifiable
  - Don’t disturb the site of an incident
  - Notify WorkCover Queensland or your workers' compensation insurer
- Asbestos notifications
- Demolition notifications
- Hazardous chemical notifications
- Crystalline silica substance single sample exceedance – air monitoring
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