Codes of practice and standards are approved and gazetted by the Minister for Mines and Petroleum under section 20 of the Dangerous Goods Safety Act 2004 (the Act).
Codes of practice and standards issued under the Act may also apply to mining and petroleum operations and major hazard facilities.
This section contains a list of health and safety project reports produced by WorkSafe Mines Safety.
This section contains a list of health and safety project reports produced by WorkSafe.
Inductions are an important information sharing session that helps to familiarise people with the locations, equipment, materials, processes and tasks they may encounter while working at or visiting a site for the first time.
For more information visit the Effective inductions webpage.
This information is for businesses and other person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who are not directly involved in firefighting, but might have workers affected by bushfires and smoke caused by bushfires.
Everyone in the workplace has duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws.
Under the WHS laws, there are specific duties for:
This checklist is a tool to assist duty holders and persons conducting a business or undertaking including arborists, tree climbers, horticulturalists, gardeners, tree workers, landscapers, and others involved in the amenity (non-production) tree industry to manage their duties under work health and safety (WHS) laws. It highlights relevant considerations for these tasks but does not cover all WHS requirements.
Human factors are an integral component of safe and reliable operations within major hazard facilities (MHFs) and petroleum and geothermal energy operations (PAGEOs). The highly hazardous nature of these operations means they have major accident potential and many of the safety critical tasks to prevent and mitigate major accident events depend on human performance as a barrier or safeguard.
This guide will help a PCBU understand the additional work health and safety (WHS) requirements in relation to processing a CSS, from 1 September 2024, to protect workers and others at the workplace from exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS).
Amendments to the Work Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WHS General Regulations) commenced operation 1 September 2024. Additional requirements are now in place for processing ‘crystalline silica substances’ (CSS), particularly if the work is considered ‘high risk’.
A crystalline silica substance is any material containing at least 1 per cent crystalline silica (by weight). Examples of these include:
