Rooftop solar installation work has serious work health and safety (WHS) risks including working at height, falling objects, heat stress and working with electricity. This guide provides practical work health and safety information for duty holders, primarily for ‘persons conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBUs), on:

• the duties and obligations under the model WHS laws
• identifying and assessing risks associated with installing solar panels on rooftops
• control measures to manage the risks, and
• how to plan and safely undertake rooftop solar installation work.

You are a PCBU if you:

• engage workers, or cause workers to be engaged, to undertake rooftop solar installation work
• influence or direct workers to undertake rooftop solar installation work
• have management or control of a workplace, or the fixtures, fittings or plant at a workplace, where rooftop solar installation work is undertaken.