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Peter, Liz and Wes will provide practical strategies to designing out hazards and explore work health and safety and productivity improvements that result from good design of machinery. 

This sample form may help you manage cash-in-transit security risks at your workplace. 

This form is part of a series which includes: 

Safe design is an important step in making sure a product is without risks to health and safety. Find out ways to design buildings, structures and plant with minimal or no risk. 

Designing a product using safe design practices saves lives. It also reduces costs to businesses and the community. Find out how to use the methods and 5 principles of safe design. 

As a major employer in Australia, small businesses must look after the health and safety of their workers. Small businesses have work health and safety (WHS) duties and most are required to have workers’ compensation insurance. 

As a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you have a duty to consider safe design in a workplace. 

This page will assist you in understanding your duties under the model work health and safety laws, and direct you to supporting documentation. 

Use this guide to manage risks with split rims. You should use this general guide if your workplace:

This information sheet provides information on managing risks associated with steel erection work including:  

• who has responsibilities at the design and planning stage? 

Use this guide to manage the risks of machinery, vehicles and other types of plant used in rural workplaces. 

The guide includes information on: 

• using plant in rural workplaces 

This information sheet provides information about managing the risks of using quad bikes in rural workplaces, including: 

• determining farm vehicle needs  

This educational resource provides guidance about work health and safety and safe work design.

It covers the evidence and theory behind the principles of good work design. Further guidance is available in:

This handbook provides guidance on good work design. It includes the

This study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.

The following guidance material provides information on the safe design, manufacture, import and supply of plant. 

Use this model Code of Practice if you design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace. This includes architects, building designers and engineers. 

This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing the risk of a falls by a person from one level to another that is reasonably likely to cause injury.