Health and safety guidance and resources for businesses that take raw materials, substances or components and create new products with them. These products could include food, drinks. leather goods or medical supplies.
Manufacturing
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Preventing injuries in poultry processing
With the rate of time-lost compensation claims in poultry processing nearly double the Queensland average, research into injury prevention in the industry was r...
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Industrial vacuum cleaners and hazardous dust
Selecting the right portable extractor or industrial vacuum cleaner for hazardous dusts
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Safe working at heights from work platforms in the meat industry
Control the risks from working on raised processing platforms at meat processing workplaces.
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Plant design registration
Plant design registration guidelines for application.
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Incident alert
Worker fatally injured by gateA worker died after a large steel sliding gate fell on him.
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Incident alert
Fatal hot work incidentA person died when a drum exploded unexpectedly at a property.
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Managing respirable dust hazards in coal-fired power stations Code of Practice 2023
Following a technical review, the Managing respirable dust hazards in coal-fired power stations Code of Practice 2023 (the Code) commenced a...
Commencement date: 3 December 2023 -
Foundry code of practice 2004
This code of practice provides practical advice on managing risks in foundry work.
Commencement date: 1 July 2004 -
Welding processes code of practice 2021
This code of practice on how to manage the risks associated with welding processes in the workplace is an approved code of practice under se...
Commencement date: 1 March 2021
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Metal product manufacturing industry: hazard identification checklist
A checklist to assist in identifying hazards
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Manufacturing fixed plant - Self assessment tool
Traumatic amputations and serious injuries are common when working around fixed plant in the manufacturing industry. Use this self-assessment tool to identify h...
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Sawmilling industry safety management systems self-assessment checklist
Use this self-assessment checklist to evaluate your processes and systems for safety management (4pages).
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Injury cost calculator
A tool that assists businesses to calculate the initial and often overlooked and uninsured costs of real and potential workplace injuries.
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Miles Doing What Matters: More Queensland workers set to benefit from nation-leading leave reform
Premier Steven Miles has today announced a major extension to nation leading leave reform, building on changes announced on Labour Day 2024.
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Public Health Services Table of Costs update – effective 1 July 2024
WorkCover Queensland has updated our Public Health Services Table of Costs, which was published in the Queensland Government Gazette and wil...
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Upcoming asbestos management compliance audits for Queensland businesses
Starting 1 August 2024, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors will begin auditing businesses operating from buildings constructe...
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Mentally healthy workplaces workshops 2024
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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Your guide to the changes: Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 – Free webinar
Whether you're an employer, worker, or a dedicated health and safety representative, register your interest for early access to an informati...
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Respirable crystalline silica in the stone benchtop industry
Inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust can lead to serious lung conditions such as silicosis. Find out what your legal responsibilities...
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Spray painting and powder coating
Spray painting is an efficient way to apply high-quality paint coatings to a wide range of surfaces, and it’s used in a variety of industrie...
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Leptospirosis
Leptospirosis, also known as Weil’s disease, is an infection you can get from animals (rats, mice, cows, pigs and dogs). It is spread by con...
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Notification of permitted work with legacy engineered stone
A person conducting a business or undertaking must complete this form and send it to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland before initiating, directing, or all...
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WorkCover Connect for employers
Manage your claims and policy with our free online service.
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Renew my policy
Renew your WorkCover insurance policy online.
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Check insurance cover
Check to see if an employer has a current accident insurance policy.
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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.
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Ambassadors
Our safety ambassadors share their stories and increase awareness of the importance of mentally healthy workplaces and work health and safet...
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Work Well Awards 2023
More than 111 organisations and individuals entered this year’s Work Well Awards, demonstrating their dedication to making Queensland workpl...
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Safety Advocates
Our Safety Advocates highlight the personal impacts that an injury can have on workers and their families.
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Sex work - WHS overview
From 1 August 2024, work health and safety (WHS) laws will apply to all sex work businesses operating in Queensland. In consultation with in...
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Sex work - How to manage work health and safety risks
This film explains what a Persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) is and the responsibility they have to ensure the safety of wo...
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Sex work – Workplace hazard prevention
This film explains how hazard prevention can take many forms including providing suitable and adequate PPE, providing furniture and equipmen...
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Principal contractor held to not be liable
The worker brought an action in negligence to recover damages from the defendants in respect of personal injuries he says he sustained whils...
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The home: another place of employment where workplace injuries can occur
Working from home creates an additional place of employment in which the employer must take steps to do what is reasonably practicable to en...
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Employer found to have breached duty of care to concrete delivery driver
On 26 July 20218 the Plaintiff, a concrete delivery driver, suffered a left wrist and secondary psychiatric injury.
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Form 14 - Application for registration of plant design
Designer statement and declaration for plant design registration (parts 4 and 5 of Form 14).
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Form 70 - Notification of a hazardous chemicals pipeline
This is an approved form for compliance with Section 390 and 391 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (WHS Regulation).
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Form 8 - Application for registration of registrable plant
Plant includes: boilers, amusement devices, building maintenance unit, passenger lift, mobile crane, pressure vessel, tower crane, and concrete placement units....
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Form 74 - New application for authorisation
If your workplace uses, handles or stores prohibited or restricted carcinogenic hazardous chemicals, use this form to apply for authorisation.
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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.
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Navigating psychosocial hazards and factors within the workplace
Tanya Orszulak from the Psychological Health Unit talked to 4BC Radio about Mental Health Week and how to navigate psychosocial hazards and factors within the w...