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The national workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica has been halved from an eight hour time-weighted average airborne concentration of 0.1 milligrams per cubic metre (mg/m3) to 0.05 mg/m3; this new workplace exposure standard takes effect in Queensland from 1 July 2020.

Silicosis is preventable by using proper controls to eliminate or minimise expo sure to respirable crystalline silica dust in the workplace.

Provides practical guidance for a person conducting a business or undertaking and workers on managing health and safety risks associated with tunnelling work.

A guide for those businesses and building professionals that must ensure the products and materials they procure and use in building and construction are ‘fit for purpose’ and conform and comply with Australian building laws and standards and any other local requirements.

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.

This Code of Practice on how to manage work health and safety risks is an approved code of practice under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act (the WHS Act).

Illustrates the key WHS principles that apply to all WHS duties in the model WHS Act, and the duty to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other duty holders.

This guide will help you to understand your duties as a PCBU to provide health monitoring for your workers; it will assist you to comply with your duties under the model WHS laws, but should not be relied on in the place of the full text of those laws.

Intended to be read by a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU). It provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to manage health and safety risks associated with abrasive blasting.

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to comply with their health and safety duties when carrying out construction work involving concrete pumping.