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  • Form

    Health and safety checklist for working from home

    Checklist to assess WHS risks for working from home arrangements.

    PDF 222.78 kB 6 April 2022
  • Guide

    Risk management Form 1 - Hairdressing, nail and beauty industry

    Example of a risk management form in the hairdressing industry.

    PDF 33.65 kB 28 August 2020
  • Guide

    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.

    PDF 483.54 kB 28 August 2020
  • Form

    Form 86 Lead health monitoring report

    A form completed before lead risk work to monitor health for each worker.

    PDF 208.07 kB 28 August 2020
  • Case study

    Judgement of breach of duty of care overturned on appeal

    Larkin v Suncorp Staff Pty Ltd [2013] QDC 028 Samios DCJ. A judgement ruling an employer breached its of duty of care was overturned on Appeal when it was noted that there was a low probability that an accident would occur and the resulting injuries would be minimal.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Employer not liable for worker failing to keep look out

    Pershouse v Sirius Observatories Australia [2013] QDC, 9 May 2013. The Court was satisfied that there was no duty upon the employer to protect the worker from a risk that would have been reasonably foreseen by the worker.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Credibility of the worker was important in determining the extent of the injury

    Richard Craig Adam v Skilled Group Limited and Anor [2013] QSC 7, 8 February 2013. While credibility issues on their own are not always compelling, the combination of them can cause considerable concern.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    The onerous obligation on an employer to instruct and warn

    Weaver v Endeavour Foundation [2013] QSC 93, 12 April 2013. This judgment effectively imposes a standard akin to perfection on an employer and goes to the scope of an employer’s duty of care generally. The employer was found liable for doing its very best to train staff to minimise foreseeable risks of injury in the workplace.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Industry standard equipment not enough to satisfy duty of care

    Thompson v Cranetrans Pty Ltd [2013] QSC 250 23 September 2013. Where equipment is provided which accords with industry standard, that does not necessarily mean that the employer’s conduct has met a standard of reasonable care.

    1 July 2015
  • Case study

    Plaintiff’s failure to establish causation and onus of proof

    Claire Hammond v Cerebral Palsy of League Queensland M172/12 11 September 2013. This case highlights that even though an employer may have breached their duty of care, the onus is on the worker to prove that the breach was a material cause of the harm suffered by the worker.

    1 July 2015
  • Guide

    Australian bat lyssavirus and handling bats

    Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABL) is closely related to the rabies virus. Only vaccinated people who have been trained in the care of bats should ever handle them.

    PDF 292.86 kB 28 August 2020
  • Guide

    Kerbside fuel dispensing

    Guidance about kerbside fuel dispensing.

    PDF 805.79 kB 28 August 2020