Health and safety guidance and resources for businesses that onsell goods to other businesses, often in bulk, from a warehouse or office facility.
Wholesale trade
CampaignsAll campaigns
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Tyre safety campaign
Tyres can pose risks to workers and others throughout their lifecycle, particularly when heavy vehicles are part of business operations. Dur...
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Ambassadors
Our safety ambassadors share their stories and increase awareness of the importance of mentally healthy workplaces and work health and safet...
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Work Well Awards 2023
More than 111 organisations and individuals entered this year’s Work Well Awards, demonstrating their dedication to making Queensland workpl...
NewsAll news
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Safe Work Month focuses on being safe 365 days of the year
Saving lives by raising awareness about workplace health and safety is the focus of National Safe Work Month this October. Safety doesn’t ha...
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Farm safety a prized subject for Queensland students
Be safe around electrical equipment, always wear a helmet on a quad bike and wash your hands after touching animals – these are some of the ...
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Annual update of Private Hospital Services Table of Costs
WorkCover Queensland is commencing our annual review of the Private Hospital Services Table of Costs for 2024.
Events
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Mentally healthy workplaces workshops 2024
Designed for managers and supervisors, you’ll be equipped with foundational skills to identify, assess and manage risks to psychological hea...
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Mental Injury Webinar Series: PART TWO - The Employer Response
In part two of our mental injury webinar series, WorkCover Queensland Head of Communication, Eve Faulkner, welcomes guest speaker Dr Mary Wy...
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Asbestos Awareness Week 2024
Asbestos Awareness Week (25 November to 1 December 2024) promotes the importance of living and working safely with asbestos. This year we ar...
Alerts
All alerts
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Incident alert
Workers sustain serious injuries from two separate conveyor incidentsIn 2024 an incident occurred where a worker was using a shovel to clear out a build-up of dirt from around the bottom idler roller of the main conveyor. The wor...
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Incident alert
Four workers injured in three separate falls from roofing incidentsThree recent incidents where workers have suffered serious injuries have highlighted the dangers of falls from heights.
HazardsAll hazards
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Flammable refrigerants
Find out about flammable refrigerants and your responsibilities for storing and handling them.
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Anhydrous ammonia
Anhydrous ammonia is a colourless gas that has a strong smell and is toxic, corrosive and flammable. It serves as an effective industrial re...
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Forklifts
Find advice on forklift safety and how to meet your legal responsibilities.
Codes of practiceAll codes of practice
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Amusement Devices Code of Practice 2023
This code of practice provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with amusement devices and provides ri...
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Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 changes
Queensland has now updated the Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination Code of Practice 2021 (PDF, 0.47 MB) to ref...
Commencement date: 1 March 2021 -
Managing risks in stevedoring Code of Practice 2023
The Managing risks in stevedoring Code of Practice 2018 (Stevedoring Code 2018) commenced as an approved code of practice under the Work Hea...
Commencement date: 31 March 2023
Services
All services
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WorkCover Connect for employers
Manage your claims and policy with our free online service.
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Send or request WorkCover information
The easiest and fastest way you can get information to or from WorkCover Queensland is using our dedicated online services.
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Check insurance cover
Check to see if an employer has a current accident insurance policy.
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Hazardous chemical notifications
Make a hazardous chemical notification to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
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Electrical licence holder search
You can check the status of electrical contractor licence numbers through our online Electrical Licence Search.
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Electrical contractor self-audit
This self-audit is designed to help you better understand and meet your key electrical safety obligations.
Guides
All guides
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Look sharp blade safety
Practical guidance on how to use blades safely when opening packaging
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Forklift safety for workers
What you need to know to safely and legally operate a forklift (2 pages). In Qld you need a high risk work licence (LF) to use a forklift.
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Manifest requirements for hazardous chemicals
This guide can be used to assist a PCBU meet their duty to provide a manifest for hazardous chemicals under the WHS Regulation. This guide outlines the informat...
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Work-related violence and aggression in retail
Work-related violence and aggression in retail
Tools
All tools
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Warehouse / Storeperson : Return to Work Checklist and Plan
For use by medical practitioner.
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No DIY sign - must be installed by a licensed electrician
Signage for printing - landscape, two to a page.
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No DIY sign - must be installed by a licensed electrician
Sign for printing - small (landscape orientation).
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Operator checklist for temporary fuel storage and handling systems
Operator checklist for temporary fuel storage and handling systems.
VideosAll videos
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Mental Injury Webinar Series: Part Two - The Employer Response
In part two of our mental injury webinar series, guest speaker Dr Mary Wyatt unpacks studies to demonstrate the impact an employer's respons...
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Mental Injury Webinar Series: Part One - Lived Experience
In part one of our mental injury webinar series, guest speaker Dr Deborah Simmons shares her personal journey through a workplace mental inj...
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Your guide to the Work Health and Safety (Sexual Harassment) Amendment Regulation 2024
There have been changes in how Queensland businesses need to manage the risk of sexual harassment and sex or gender-based harassment at work...
Case studiesAll case studies
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The home: another place of employment where workplace injuries can occur
Working from home creates an additional place of employment in which the employer must take steps to do what is reasonably practicable to en...
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Employer found liable for a lumbar spine injury
The plaintiff suffered an injury to her lumbar spine while lifting a load from a low pallet to a sheft on 28 April 2019.
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Tamara's story
Tamara shared with us what motivates her to foster a supportive return to work culture and help YFS employees when they are injured.
Forms
All forms
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Form 73 - Notification of a manifest quantity workplace (smart form)
For use by businesses to comply with Section 348 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (WHS Regulation).
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Form 74 - New application for authorisation
If your workplace uses, handles or stores prohibited or restricted carcinogenic hazardous chemicals, use this form to apply for authorisation.
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Form 536 – Notification of a facility exceeding 10% of schedule 15 threshold
Use this form when schedule 15 chemicals exceeding 10% of threshold quantities are to be used, handled, or stored at your facility.
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Form 23 - Amended notification of lead risk work
Lead is a highly toxic cumulative poison for which manufacturers and importers must prepare, review, amend and provide Safety Data Sheets and suppliers must pro...
Podcasts
All podcasts
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Providing a psychologically safe and positive workplace
Creating a psychologically safe workplace to improve health outcomes and reduce absenteeism and compensation claims.
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Navigating psychosocial hazards and factors within the workplace
Tanya Orszulak from the Psychological Health Unit talked to 4BC Radio about Mental Health Week and how to navigate psychosocial hazards and factors within the w...