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  • Video

    Construction silica animation

    The new Code is Australia’s first silica dust code of practice for the construction industry and will commence in Queensland on 1 May 2023. It applies to all construction work as well as the manufacturing of materials such as bricks, blocks, tiles, mortar and concrete.

  • Guide

    What is People at Work

    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.

  • Case study

    Employer liable for injury loading truck at coal mine

    The plaintiff was a truck operator at the Burton Coal Mine, and alleged he sustained an injury to his lower back when a large rock was dropped into the tray of his truck in October 2011.

  • Case study

    Nurse awarded damages after patient barges through a door

    The Plaintiff was a nurse who sustained injuries to her back together with a secondary psychological injury, after a patient attempted to barge through a door in the nurses’ station in the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (the PICU) on 9 August 2012.

  • Video

    Occupational health assessment of a patient presenting with a work-related musculoskeletal injury

    This presentation provides advice to general practitioners and practice managers about applying the relevant principles and considerations in assessing a patient with a work-related musculoskeletal injury. Presented by Mr Dalton Langenhoven.

  • Tool

    Work Health and Safety Policy template

    Use this sample, fillable document to establish your company's Work Health and Safety policy. The responsibility for managing health and safety ultimately rests with the person in control of the business or undertaking (PCBU).

  • Tool

    PErforM Risk Assessment Tool

    PErforM - Participative Ergonomics for manual-tasks

  • Case study

    Plaintiff unsuccessful in proving QAS psychiatric injury liability

    The plaintiff was a paramedic with the Queensland Ambulance Service (‘QAS’), based in Far North Queensland. He allegedly developed a psychiatric injury arising out of three incidents which he attended as paramedic at Doomadgee.

  • Publication

    February 2023

    Read the February 2023 edition of Rehabilitation and Return to Work e-bulletin.

  • Case study

    A foreseeable risk

    Schmidt v S J Sanders Pty Ltd, 22 June 2012. This case highlights the need that even experienced truck drivers need to be specifically trained in egress and access of trucks due to the foreseeable risk of slipping off a truck step.

  • Guide

    Health and Safety Solution - Using forklift attachments

    Health and Safety Solution - using forklift attachments.

  • Tax file number declaration

    Australian Tax Office NAT 74911-11.2018