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  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Roof collapse

    The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight that sudden roof collapse can occur without warning. This alert provides guidance for building owners, schools, local government, building managers and body corporates about minimising the risk of roof collapse.

    26 September 2017
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Impact protection for LPG cylinders

    The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the importance of adequate impact protection for LPG cylinders and to remind gas work licence holders and LPG delivery network operators of their responsibilities.

    26 September 2017
  • Incident alert

    Billboard workers overhead powerlines electric shock

    On 7 August 2017, two workers in an uninsulated elevating work platform contacted an 11 kV powerline with the six metre aluminium sail track they were reinstalling on a billboard. Both workers suffered a severe electrical shock and burns from contacting the high voltage lines.

    4 September 2017
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Stability of stacked material

    The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the risks associated with stacked materials and to ensure a safe system of work is followed.

    30 June 2017
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Enriched air nitrox (EANx) compressor systems

    This safety alert highlights the dangers associated with the production of Nitrox, including the oxygen stick method.

    6 June 2017
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Access hatches

    The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight the risks associated with removable access hatches.

    9 May 2017
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Explosive conditions: grinding, cutting and welding (including pre-heating) from the inside or outside of confined spaces

    The purpose of this safety alert is to provide practical guidance to minimise health and safety risks associated with the danger of grinding, cutting and welding in, on and around confined spaces and compartments such as tanks, containers, vessels and other enclosed structures, which have contained flammable or combustible liquids.

    14 July 2015
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Managing drowning risks at publicly accessible pools

    Could you live with someone drowning on your watch? Swimming pools are used mainly by children and young people as an avenue for having fun. While the death of anyone from drowning is a tragedy, the death of a child or a young person is catastrophic. There are substantial penalties in the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (Act) if it is found that a pool operator hasn't taken adequate steps to prevent a person drowning.

    6 January 2015
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Carbon monoxide poisoning, hookah compressors and diving

    Workplace health and safety alerts for alerting people in the diving industry to the hazards caused by air intake hoses on surface breathing air systems

    3 December 2014
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Truck mounted forklifts

    To alert all persons conducting a business or undertaking (whether as employer, self-employed person or worker), of the risk of failure of the "top mounting kit" when loading or unloading a Manitou forklift to and from the tray of trucks or trailers.

    1 December 2014
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Non-compliant vehicle stands

    The purpose of this alert is to highlight the risks associated with using non-compliant vehicle stands.

    31 October 2014
  • Workplace health and safety alert

    Fire hazard of static electricity when handling flammable liquids

    The purpose of this safety alert is to inform people about the danger of igniting flammable liquids by static electricity and provide guidance on how to control static electricity when filling containers with flammable liquid at service stations.

    31 October 2014