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Health & Safety Handbook

Recently updated chapters

Road transport worker safety

This chapter explains your health and safety obligations in the road transport industry, and the chain of responsibility for parties in the heavy vehicle industry.

Disciplining workers

This chapter explains how to lawfully discipline workers who have breached health and safety policies or procedures in your workplace.

Enforceable undertakings

NEW CHAPTER: This chapter explains the meaning of an enforceable undertaking and how your organisation can prepare a proposal to the safety regulator.

Obligations and standards

This chapter explains the health and safety legislation and regulations with which you must comply, and how codes and standards can help you meet your obligations.

Latest bulletins

Electing health and safety representatives and committees

Trailer safety reminder for Victorian businesses

New work health and safety laws come into effect in Western Australia

Reminder for NSW workers: Speak up to save lives

Prosecution of CEO: The buck stops at the top

Is it time to review your work design?

Latest case law

First individual conviction for industrial manslaughter in Queensland

Company fined $100,000 for failing to control electrical hazard

Pressure-testing of underground petrol storage system causes explosion

Tragic and preventable road incident takes public lives

Casual farmhands put at risk by employer failings

Untrained and unsupervised worker loses fingers in unguarded machinery

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Recently updated chapters

Road transport worker safety This chapter explains your health and safety obligations in the road transport industry, and the chain of responsibility for parties in the heavy vehicle industry.

Disciplining workers This chapter explains how to lawfully discipline workers who have breached health and safety policies or procedures in your workplace.

Enforceable undertakings NEW CHAPTER: This chapter explains the meaning of an enforceable undertaking and how your organisation can prepare a proposal to the safety regulator.

Obligations and standards This chapter explains the health and safety legislation and regulations with which you must comply, and how codes and standards can help you meet your obligations.

Latest bulletins

Electing health and safety representatives and committees

Trailer safety reminder for Victorian businesses

New work health and safety laws come into effect in Western Australia

Reminder for NSW workers: Speak up to save lives

Prosecution of CEO: The buck stops at the top

Is it time to review your work design?

Most viewed

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Latest case law

First individual conviction for industrial manslaughter in Queensland

Company fined $100,000 for failing to control electrical hazard

Pressure-testing of underground petrol storage system causes explosion

Tragic and preventable road incident takes public lives

Casual farmhands put at risk by employer failings

Untrained and unsupervised worker loses fingers in unguarded machinery

Health & Safety Handbook

Road transport worker safety

This chapter explains your health and safety obligations in the road transport industry, and the chain of responsibility for parties in the heavy vehicle industry.

Disciplining workers

This chapter explains how to lawfully discipline workers who have breached health and safety policies or procedures in your workplace.

Enforceable undertakings

NEW CHAPTER: This chapter explains the meaning of an enforceable undertaking and how your organisation can prepare a proposal to the safety regulator.

Obligations and standards

This chapter explains the health and safety legislation and regulations with which you must comply, and how codes and standards can help you meet your obligations.