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Did you know that musculoskeletal injuries are the most common type of injury in Australian workplaces?

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In the construction industry there are activities that are classified high risk because they have the potential to cause serious injury or death. When any of these activities are involved, the workplace must prepare a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) before work starts.

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who carries out high risk construction work has additional WHS duties. These include requirements to prepare, keep, comply with and review a safe work method statement (SWMS). 

A SWMS is a document that sets out: 

Under the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act you are responsible for the health and safety of labour hire workers if you:

Silica dust is a work health and safety hazard. It is produced when materials or products containing silica such as stone, bricks, concrete or tiles are cut, drilled, polished or ground.

In week 4 of National Safe Work Month, we are exploring how to work together to create safe and healthy workplaces.

This National Safe Work Month, individuals and organisations are encouraged to put work health and safety front and centre through the theme for everyone’s safety, work safely.

National Safe Work Month is a time to commit to building a safe and healthy workplace, free from physical and psychological harm.

Safe Work Australia encourages everyone to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month. 

National Safe Work Month is held every October and reminds us of the importance of work health and safety.

Safe Work Australia encourages everyone to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces this National Safe Work Month.

If you’re a PCBU, this checklist will help you to ensure you have arrangements in place that meet your WHS duties and support effective consultation.

Recognise National Safe Work Month this October by hosting a SafeTea event at your workplace.

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Safe Work Australia has launched a new awareness campaign about stigma associated with workers’ compensation and what can be done to reduce it. 

Food delivery workers are at risk of physical and psychological harm at work. Safe Work Australia has today launched the Deliver yourself home safely campaign to increase their awareness and knowledge of work health and safety. 

Food delivery workers are at risk of physical and psychological harm at work. Safe Work Australia has today launched the Deliver yourself home safely campaign to increase their awareness and knowledge of work health and safety. 

This fact sheet shares practical ways employers can reduce workers’ compensation stigma. Employers and human resources (HR) have a role in promoting positive and inclusive work environments that support injured or ill workers.

Use this fact sheet to understand workers' compensation stigma and its impact in the workplace.

Employers and human resources (HR) have a role in promoting positive and inclusive work environments that support injured or ill workers.

Information for supervisors about practical ways they can help reduce workers’ compensation stigma and support workers to claim workers’ compensation. 

This fact sheet shares practical ways workers can reduce workers’ compensation stigma. 

Use this fact sheet to help understand how workers’ compensation may help you and what some of the benefits of the scheme are.

This fact sheet provides details about what workers’ compensation is and how it can help you.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for employers to take action to reduce workers’ compensation stigma.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for supervisors to take action to reduce workers’ compensation stigma.

Download the .ZIP file above to access a pack with all resources for workers.

Small and medium businesses face complex challenges when their workers suffer a workplace injury or illness.

These templates include examples of:

This document provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the term ‘reasonably practicable’ in considering the standard of health and safety that a person conducting a business or undertaking (the duty-holder) is expected to meet under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and Regul

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to isocyanates.  

Isocyanates are a group of highly reactive, organic compounds of the formula R-N=C=O.  

The principles are part of the National Exemption Framework document package and have been developed to help guide the exemption decision making process. Exemptions must be granted only in the manner as set out in the WHS legislation and can only be made by state and territory WHS regulators.

This template is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document sent to applicants once the work health and safety regulator has made a decision about an exemption application.

This example application is part of the National Exemption Framework document package and provides an indication of the type of document which must be completed prior to lodgement of an exemption application to your jurisdictional work health and safety regulator.

Cobalt (CAS 7440-48-4; Co) is a grey metal that exists in a number of oxidation states, including divalent (Co[II]) and trivalent (Co[III]) oxidation states.

Examples of work activities involving cobalt and its compounds that may require special attention include:

Hazardous chemicals requiring health monitoring and examples of chemicals to consider for health monitoring.

The information in this guidance is taken from regulation 436 (asbestos) and Schedule 14 of the model WHS Regulations.

Developed to provide laboratories and analysts with a consistent methodology for the sampling and analysis of airborne asbestos fibres in workplaces.

The gig economy is a growing part of Australia’s workforce with over 100 platforms currently operating within Australia.

This guide helps doctors monitor the health of workers exposed to nickel.  

Nickel (CAS 7440-02-0) is a hard, silver-white metal that exists naturally in the earth’s crust. It’s in small amounts in food, water, air and soil. 

The main uses of nickel are: 

This guide helps doctors to monitor the health of workers exposed to organophosphate pesticides.  

Organophosphate (OPs) insecticides are widely used on a large variety of crops. Examples of work activities involving OPs include: 

This policy statement outlines labelling requirements for agricultural and veterinary (AgVet) chemicals under the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations.  

Use this guide if you manage risks to workers exposed to diesel exhaust at the workplace, including: 

• drive-in booth operators 

• miners 

• construction workers 

• oil and gas workers 

This document outlines the chemicals that will be added to and removed from the 

This document outlines the criteria for how to find hazardous chemicals that could be added to or removed from the 

Workers’ compensation coverage of psychological injuries 

Workers’ compensation is available for physical and psychological injury and disease.