Hazards index
Hazards are anything that can cause harm and every place of work has them. Understanding the hazards at your work can help you manage risks and keep workers safe and healthy.
This information will help you identify the hazards at your work and the steps you can take to reduce or remove risks for yourself and your workers.
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Hazardous chemicals; environment; material
Handheld power saws for cutting fibre-cement board with a blade diameter of 200mm or less
Fibre-cement board is a composite material made from cement, sand and cellulose fibres. Using a handheld power saw to cut fibre-cement board can generate respirable crystalline silica dust. When inhaled over time, the small particles of silica dust can irreversibly damage the lungs.
28 April 2023 -
Hazardous chemicals
Managing incompatible goods
Some goods should not be stored in certain ways or near other chemicals.
4 April 2017 -
Hazardous chemicals; environment; material
Heavy equipment and utility vehicles for demo activities
Using heavy equipment and utility vehicles for tasks such as demolishing, abrading, or fracturing silica-containing materials such as brick, block, and concrete can generate respirable crystalline silica dust. When inhaled, the small particles of silica can irreversibly damage the lungs.
28 April 2023 -
Hazardous chemicals; electricity; environment; health and wellbeing; material; plant, equipment and vehicle
Children in workplaces
Hazards to children in places of work carry the risk of injury, illness, or death. Workers and management can work together to reduce these risks.
18 August 2021 -
Health and wellbeing
Work health and wellbeing online learning course
This interactive online learning course is aimed at managers, health and wellbeing coordinators, human resource staff and health and safety advisors. This course focuses on how to embed work health and wellbeing into business systems to improve the health of your workers and workplaces.
11 July 2022 -
Health and wellbeing; mental health
Poor support
Poor support refers to tasks or jobs where workers have inadequate emotional and/or practical support from their supervisors and/or co-workers, inadequate training or information to support their work performance, or inadequate tools, equipment or resources to do their job.
24 October 2022 -
Environment; hazardous manual tasks; plant, equipment and vehicle
Confined spaces
Find out how to manage the health and safety risks associated with working in a confined space.
4 April 2017 -
Health and wellbeing; mental health
Low job control
Low job control refers to work in which workers have little or no control over what happens in their work environment, how or when their work is done, or the objectives they work towards.
24 October 2022 -
Health and wellbeing; mental health
Low role clarity
Low role clarity refers to jobs where there is uncertainty about, or frequent changes to tasks and work standards; where important task information is not available to workers; or where there are conflicting job roles, responsibilities or expectations.
24 October 2022 -
Mental health
Violence and aggression
Learn about your responsibilities and how to reduce work-related violence hazards.
24 October 2022 -
Health and wellbeing
Supporting an ageing workforce
Creating a healthy and safe place of work will support the health, safety and wellbeing of workers of all ages.
23 December 2019 -
Health and wellbeing; mental health
Traumatic events
Workers may be exposed to this hazard at work through investigating, witnessing, or being directly exposed to traumatic events or situations. This may include reading, hearing or seeing accounts of traumatic events. A person is more likely to experience an event as traumatic when it is unexpected, is perceived as uncontrollable, where there is a threat to life or safety or where it is the result of intentional cruelty.
24 October 2022