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Bunk Bed Safety Assessment Checklist: AS/NZS 4220:2003
Current
Australian Camps Association
This checklist is NOT the Australian Standard; it is an interpretation and is not intended to replace it.
Rest easy, bed bunk safety: A compliance guide to bunk bed safety for short-term rental accommodation
Current
Queensland Government
Short-term rental accommodation providers are encouraged to incorporate the new bunk bed regulation into their existing safety compliance programs as soon as possible.
Guide for applicants: For exemptions
Current
Safe Work Australia
This guide explains the powers to grant exemptions from the requirements of the WHS Regulations.
The pocket guide to ladder safety: For micro and small businesses and subcontractors
Current
SafeWork NSW
This guide provides useful information for common health and safety issues relating to the use of ladders relevant to New South Wales WHS laws.
SafeWork NSW: Our Regulatory Priorities 2023
Current
SafeWork NSW
This document sets out the regulatory priorities for SafeWork NSW in 2023.
Safety Checklist: Working at Heights in Construction
Current
SafeWork NSW
This checklist can be used by persons conducting a business or undertaking, principle contractors, and site supervisors to conduct basic inspections to look for common working at heights hazards.
Local planning for bushfire protection (VIC)
Current
Victorian Government
The purpose of this practice note is to provide guidance about local planning for bushfire protection; assist councils to tailor the Local Planning Policy Framework in response to bushfire matters where necessary; provide guidance on how to prepare schedules to the Bushfire Management Overlay.
Private Bushfire Shelters: Performance Standard
Available Superseded
Australian Building Codes Board
The Standard presents a Performance Requirement, relevant Acceptance Criteria and important information related to the design of a private bushfire shelter.
Suicide In The Construction Industry: 2001-2019
Current
Mates in Construction
Volume V of Report submitted to MATES in Construction by The University of Melbourne.
enHealth Guidance Statement: Lead in drinking water from some plumbing products
Current
Environmental Health Standing Committee (enHealth) of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee
enHealth recommends that every effort should be made to reduce exposure to lead in the environment, including lead that may be dissolving into drinking water from some plumbing products.
Guideline for farmstay operators (QLD)
Current
Queensland Government
Intended to assist farmstay operators to understand and comply with their obligations.
Deck, balcony and window safety: A guideline for the use, inspection and maintenance of decks, balconies and windows (QLD)
Current
Queensland Government
Helps building owners and occupiers, builders and inspectors carry out inspections on balustrades, decks and balconies in order to check the safety of these structures.
WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: dampness and mould
Current
World Health Organization
This document provides a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on health problems associated with building moisture and biological agents.
The pocket guide to construction safety: For small construction businesses and subcontractors
Current
SafeWork NSW
Provides useful information for common health and safety issues on small construction sites relevant to New South Wales WHS laws.
Repair Of Sheet Metal Roofs In Cyclonic Areas (QLD)
Current
Queensland Building And Construction Commission
Developed to assist builders and building certifiers in the repair or reconstruction of damaged sheet metal roofs in cyclonic areas.
Migration of monitored fire alarm and lift phone services good practice guide
Current
Australian Government
Designed to facilitate the migration of monitored fire alarm and lift phone services as smoothly and successfully as possible, and to support service continuity for the community.
Management guideline for the phase-out of Refrigerant R22: Impacts and strategies for building owners and facility managers
Current
Queensland Government
This guideline aims to provide advice to building owners and facility managers of the issues associated with the continued use of refrigerant R22 in air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and to encourage the development of strategies for the planned management, recovery, reclamation or safe destruction of this ozone depleting substance.
Safety signs in the workplace (SA)
Current
SafeWork SA
Safety signs inform and warn you of hazards and risks in the workplace, tell you what to do in an emergency situation and show you how to protect yourself and work safely.
Toolbox Talk: Using Scaffolds
Current
SafeWork NSW
This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction site supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who work on large prefabricated modular scaffolds.
Toolbox Talk: Using Ladders
Current
SafeWork NSW
This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who use ladders.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Workplace Drug And Alcohol Strategy
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talk: Slips, Trips And Falls
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Work Health And Safety Responsibilities
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Forklift Safety
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Hazard Identification And Risk Assessment
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Hazardous Manual Task Safety
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: New And Young Workers
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Toolbox Safety Talks: Inappropriate Workplace Behavior
Current
SafeWork SA
This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
Industry guide for formwork: Construction industry South Australia
Current
SafeWork SA
Gives practical advice about ways to manage exposure to risks associated with work involving the assembly, erection, alteration and dismantling of formwork; contributes to the development of consistent high standards for safe work in the construction industry that are conducive to best practice at the workplace.
High Risk Work: A guide to forklift safety
Current
SafeWork SA
Offers practical guidance for both businesses and workers on managing risks related to forklifts.
Asbestos (SA)
Current
South Australian Government
The Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA) requires all persons conducting a business or undertaking to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers and other persons are not put at risk from work carried out as part of the business or undertaking; this includes asbestos removal work, asbestos-related work and the risk of exposure to airborne asbestos.