Guides

Ageing Workforce Report: 2019

Employer readiness to support the needs of Australia’s ageing workforce 2019.

Safe working and supervision guide for electrical apprentices

This guide has been designed to assist electrical apprentices in Queensland to understand the electrically safe working practices required as an apprentice.

Guide to Legionella control in cooling water systems, including cooling towers

If you are in charge of cooling or air-conditioning systems, this guide will help manage the risks from micro-organisms such as legionella bacteria. This guide covers cooling water systems in industrial usage or air-conditioning situations that include components such as a cooling tower; closed circuit fluid coolers or evaporative condenser; associated chiller and condenser.

PErforM for trainers

Perform for trainers

An Assessment of Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace

People at Work is a psychosocial risk assessment process. It aims to help organisations identify and manage workplace risks to the psychological health of all workers, volunteers and persons at the workplace. Final Report to Partner Organisations 2016 (168 pages).

Vehicles as a Workplace - Work Health and Safety Guide

This guide is for firms, organisations and individuals who use vehicles for work purposes on the road networks of Australia or New Zealand. The guide describes a process for dealing with road traffic hazards in line with work health and safety (WHS) legislation and road traffic safety (RTS) principles. It covers all vehicle use in road traffic and complements other legislative requirements that apply to businesses whose primary purpose is transport, such as bus, truck or taxi operators.

Guide to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 Queensland

This guide is designed to help people understand their health and safety duties and rights in the workplace. However, it is not intended to be read in place of the WHS Act. To assist readers, cross-references to specific sections of the WHS Act are provided after each heading.

Workers’ compensation insurers’ interface data specification: Data submission process and validation reference guide

This document lists and describes all of the validations applied to the monthly insurer interface data submission.

Strategies to ensure compliance

A report on OIR strategies to ensure compliance in priority industries between 2007 - 2017 (88 pages).

Preventing and managing fatigue-related risk in the workplace

A guide on preventing and managing fatigue-related risk in the workplace.

Good work design for young workers (Webinar: slides and transcript)

Supporting and engaging with young workers in health and safety through good work design, effective leadership and a supportive safety culture. Includes SEQwater case study. 28 May 2015

Model Planning Scheme Development Code for Hazardous Industries and Chemicals

Using, storing or generating hazardous chemicals (hazchem), particularly those being processed and/or in large quantities, can generate off-site risks which require careful assessment and management. The State Planning Policy (SPP) requires development involving hazchems that is resilient and appropriately located with neighbours of compatible level of sensitivity.