Health and safety guidance and resources for businesses providing office admin, staff hiring, cleaning, gardening or pest control services.
Administrative and support services
CampaignsAll campaigns
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Ambassadors
Queensland Safety Ambassador Shane shares the impact of his father's death and importance of staying safe at work and strong safety culture.
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Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week, celebrated annually in October, promotes the importance of mental health and wellbeing and aims to reduce the stigma ass...
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Safe Work Month 2022 and Work Well 365
Register now for events and download resources to help you keep work health, safety and return to work top of mind all year round.
NewsAll news
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Work Health Safety Act set for review
The Palaszczuk Government today announced that a five-yearly review of the Work Health Safety Act will begin next week.
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Asbestos management compliance campaign
Statewide audits will start on 1 August 2022 to check businesses operating from buildings built before 1990 or those where asbestos is, or m...
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Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 changes
The updated Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 commences on 1 August 2022. No substanti...
EventsAll events
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Mentally healthy workplaces online workshops 2022
Designed for managers and supervisors, you’ll be equipped with foundational skills to identify, assess and manage risks to psychological hea...
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Work Well 365 Speaker Series - Understanding types of violence – David Whittingham
Join this FREE event streamed online where David Whittingham talks about understanding types of violence.
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Work Well 365 Speaker Series - Can you afford not to be using technology to manage work health and safety and injury recovery? – Greg Toner
Join this FREE event streamed online where Greg Toner talks about using technology to manage work health and safety and injury recovery.
Alerts
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Incident alert
Worker fatally crushed by skid steer loaderIn February 2019, a worker was killed while repairing a skid steer loader. Early investigations indicate the safety prop was not engaged to ensure the bucket ar...
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Workplace health and safety alert
Vehicle loading cranesVLCs can be dangerous when they are not operated in accordance with the manufacturers' instructions. The purpose of this safety alert is to alert operators of v...
HazardsAll hazards
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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 ...
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Electrical product recalls
If an electrical product is shown to be unsafe and likely to cause injury or damage property, it should be recalled as soon as possible.
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Lighting
How to reduce the risks associated with insufficient lighting in workplaces.
Codes of practiceAll codes of practice
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Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 changes
Queensland has now updated the Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 (PDF, 0.47 MB) to ref...
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Hazardous manual tasks code of practice 2021
This code of practice on how to manage the risks associated with hazardous manual tasks and control the risks of workers being affected by m...
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Children and young workers code of practice 2006
Advice on how to manage health and safety at workplaces where children and young workers are likely to be.
Commencement date: 1 July 2006
Services
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WorkCover Connect for employers
Manage your claims and policy with our free online service.
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Raise a workplace safety concern
To raise a concern about a work health and safety or electrical safety issue, please start by answering these five quick questions.
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Check insurance cover
Check to see if an employer has a current accident insurance policy.
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Renew my policy
Renew your WorkCover insurance policy online.
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Hazardous chemical notifications
Make a hazardous chemical notification to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
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Electrical licence holder search
You can check the status of electrical contractor licence numbers through our online Electrical Licence Search.
Guides
All guides
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Methyl bromide health monitoring guidelines
Methyl bromide health monitoring guidelines.
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Queensland infographic postcard
Data for 2018.
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Sticks stones and words - they all hurt
Poster for young workers about bullying at work.
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Small business program (brochure)
Small Business Program brochure provides information about the services available to small business owners.
Tools
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Methyl bromide health monitoring worker form
Methyl bromide health monitoring worker form
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Tools
A listing of tools available on the website. Use the in-page search or filters to help you easily find what you need.
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People at work
People at Work is a psychosocial risk assessment process to help identify and manage risks to the psychological health at work.
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Tools
These four statistics-based tools can help you manage your business. They are time-lost claims by year and industry, the industry comparative calculator, the re...
VideosAll videos
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How wellness impacts safety - pain science
This interactive session will explore how new ideas and findings in pain science and fatigue can help us to better understand accidents and ...
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Safety fundamentals - Small and medium sized business workshop
Designed for small to medium sized businesses with limited experience in work health and safety, this practical session will cover the funda...
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Heat stress management - you're doing it wrong!
In this practical session, you’ll learn about evidence-based approaches to address heat stress. This session will equip you with the knowled...
Case studiesAll case studies
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Worker unsuccessfully appeals court's initial finding that she was not bullied at work
Robertson v State of Queensland, 7 May 2021. The Court of Appeal has dismissed a worker's appeal against the District Court of Queensland's ...
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Employers need to consider the health and safety of those at work outside of normal hours
In the recent judgement of Walker v Greenmountain Food Processing Pty Ltd [2020] QSC 329, the Supreme Court of Queensland found an employer ...
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Damages awarded to librarian for back injury.
The Plaintiff was a librarian who injured her back when upturning a book return box to retrieve a book that had slipped under the base.
Forms
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Form 29 - superceded by Form 17 - Review of decision
Form 29 is superceded by Form 17. Form 17 allows a business or indiviual to apply for an internal review of a decision under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011...
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Group training record
A sample form to use in recording workers' training
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Injured worker authorisation
A form whereby an injured worker authorises the communication of information between their medical provider and employer in relation to their worker's compensat...
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Form 31 suitable duties program
A workplace suitable duties agreement form.
Podcasts
All podcasts
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Podcasts
A listing of podcasts available on the website. Use the in-page search or filters to help you easily find what you need.
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Providing a psychologically safe and positive workplace
Creating a psychologically safe workplace to improve health outcomes and reduce absenteeism and compensation claims.