Construction - Publications by Type

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Safety and Health Alert

01-01 Concrete cutting saw causes death (38911 bytes)
01-03 Contact with overhead power lines fatally injures work (40177 bytes)
01-96 Forklift truck injury (35035 bytes)
02-04 Excavator bucket not secured (43411 bytes)
02-94 Fall from unguarded stairway landing (33138 bytes)
02-95 Fatal accident-working with machinery (34490 bytes)
03-03 Two workers killed by mobile plant (45361 bytes)
03-06 Tric Bloc (tm) Concrete Median Barrier Failure (79445 bytes)
03-94 Risk of persons falling from a height (41518 bytes)
03-99 Dogger run over by tractor crane (42484 bytes)
04-01 Problems with concrete cutting saw blades (34107 bytes)
04-07 Stone worker killed (44334 bytes)
04-08 Fatal cherry picker accident (75397 bytes)
04-94 Fatal accident involving transportable homes (36669 bytes)
04-98 Injured by exploding nut (41602 bytes)
04-99 Tilt-up panel falls over (34367 bytes)
05-00 Fatal accident-electrocution of rigger (45132 bytes)
05-09 Scaffold mesh panel (78079 bytes)
05-99 Falling bricks pin bricklayer (34358 bytes)
06-01 Scaffolder recieves electric shock (40813 bytes)
06-03 Concrete cutting results in electric shock to employee (44442 bytes)
06-06 Retaining wall collapses onto employee (47101 bytes)
06-07 Elevated workplatform operator killed (43777 bytes)
06-08 Safety of suspended scaffolds (36805 bytes)
07-01 Use of portable generators (38603 bytes)
07-02 Collapse of a tilt-up concrete structure (40314 bytes)
07-04 Seat belt saves crane operater from serious injury (36170 bytes)
07-06 Crane roll over (43996 bytes)
07-07 Grader operator fatality (43803 bytes)
07-94 Working in ceiling spaces of old houses (35790 bytes)
07-95 Accidents involving crown and talon elevating work (40922 bytes)
08-03 Trip hazard (35900 bytes)
08-06 Worker fatally injured after falling through a roof (84600 bytes)
08-07 Use of articulated non-slewing mobile cranes#2 (44414 bytes)
09-00 Unqualified tradesperson tampering with electrical equ (37989 bytes)
09-01 Mobile equipment on pedestrian ramps (34958 bytes)
09-06 Runaway road roller (48307 bytes)
09-07 Articulated tractor crane (44028 bytes)
09-08 MP3 players (29154 bytes)
09-09 Masonry cutting grinder causes death (41612 bytes)
09-95 Worker electrocuted drilling into wall (39986 bytes)
09-96 Worker killed by reversing grader (39297 bytes)
09-98 Cranes free falling loads (36615 bytes)
10-03 Employee amputates thumb using hired blocksplitter (45748 bytes)
10-07 Excavator crush injury (43585 bytes)
10-95 Spiral staircases-business services (39950 bytes)
11-06 Children in the workplace (44929 bytes)
11-07 Skid steer operator injured (43709 bytes)
11-95 Carpenter electrocuted (34245 bytes)
11-98 Welding on site a fire hazard (36498 bytes)
12-00 Fall from height on residential construction site (35381 bytes)
12-09_dry_powder_tanker (42580 bytes)
12-95 Electrician electrocuted installing switch (33493 bytes)
12-96 Electrical hazards in ceiling spaces (37055 bytes)
12-99 Young worker manual handling 20 litre paint_tins (37568 bytes)
13-00 Fake bolts in tilt-up panels (38693 bytes)
13-01 Precast concrete panel falls over (38079 bytes)
13-06 Mobile scaffold failure (45136 bytes)
13-95 Supervisor killed by falling tree branch (34421 bytes)
13-96 Dogman receives electric shock (39791 bytes)
13-99 Fall from ceiling joist (42385 bytes)
14-00 Cave-in causes concrete block to slide onto worker (36775 bytes)
14-03 Workers injured by falling granite slab (35092 bytes)
14-94 Tampering with electrical equipment-accessories (41676 bytes)
14-99 Manual handling fastwall lintels (44720 bytes)
15-02 Collapse of operable (folding) wall (35782 bytes)
15-06 Safety and health representative injured while investi (36640 bytes)
15-98 Ultraviolet radiation from mercury vapour (36879 bytes)
16-02 A kerbing contractor receives serious burns (33843 bytes)
16-05 Failure of scaffold hoist guardrail (107873 bytes)
16-2007_Modular_scaffold_collapse (44498 bytes)
17-00 Truck unloading fatality (35626 bytes)
17-07 Tropical cyclones (48908 bytes)
17-95 Lineworker falls from power pole (38895 bytes)
17-99 Mobile scaffold collapse an injury (36178 bytes)
18-01 Sub-contractor unknowingly provokes serious dog attack (38866 bytes)
18-04 Worker sustains serious injury when portable ladder co (44565 bytes)
18-05 Concrete panel retaining wall failure (41606 bytes)
18-94 Fatal accident-hydrofluoric acid (30680 bytes)
18-97 Incomplete roofs-a fall hazard (35919 bytes)
19-00 Eye Injuries (42961 bytes)
19-05 4x4 vehicle slides out of control (40662 bytes)
19-09 Nail gun eye injury (42474 bytes)
22-99 Dangers of working near overhead power lines (34432 bytes)
23-95 Fall from access way (33520 bytes)
24-95 Injuries associated with use of mobile phones (33491 bytes)
26-96 Dangers of working near overhead powerlines (34925 bytes)
27-95 Dogger run over by tractor crane (35320 bytes)
29-95 Driver dies in forklift rollover (42326 bytes)
30-95 Demolition worker killed (35321 bytes)
31-00 Yard hands forearm and wrist crushed (35209 bytes)
33-00 Wrong bracing inserts cause tilt-up panel collapse (45425 bytes)
35-00 Perimeter formwork construction (49224 bytes)
36-00 Wrong length jib pendant wire ropes cause collapse (42515 bytes)
37-99 Explosion of wheelbarrow tyre during inflation (34790 bytes)
41-99 Elevating work platform operator injured (42967 bytes)

Brochure

About WorkSafe (128520 bytes)
Commission for Occupational Safety and Health (152997 bytes)
Residual current devices (RCD's) (141341 bytes)
The Commission for Occupational Safety and Health (152997 bytes)
ThinkSafe small business assistance program (441756 bytes)

Bulletin

Agents providing workers-Apprentices and trainees (237599 bytes)
Agents providing workers -Labour hire (238093 bytes)
Asbestos:Nationwide ban (90460 bytes)
Domestic construction - Controlling falling risks on roofs (90739 bytes)
Electing safety and health representatives (160394 bytes)
Electrical switchboards on contruction sites (76719 bytes)
Employer provided accomodation and general duty of care (152555 bytes)
Enforceable undertakings (144005 bytes)
Gloves-selection use and maintenance (152548 bytes)
Helmets on construction sites (167904 bytes)
Host employer apprentices and trainees (249097 bytes)
Host employers-labour hire (254801 bytes)
Labour hire industry and duty of care (153820 bytes)
Machine guarding (70803 bytes)
New licence for high risk work (664258 bytes)
Provisional improvement notice (165248 bytes)
Safety and health obligations of owner builders (55730 bytes)
Tips for investigating accidents and incidents (95496 bytes)

Code of practice

Concrete and masonry cutting and drilling (371497 bytes)
Excavation (785396 bytes)
First aid, workplace amenities and personal protective clothing (416618 bytes)
Managing noise at workplaces (1626151 bytes)
Manual handling (1965546 bytes)
Occupational safety and health in call centres (281296 bytes)
Prevention and control of legionnaires disease (177275 bytes)
Prevention of falls at workplaces (995672 bytes)
Safe design of buildings and structures (125373 bytes)
Tilt-up and precast concrete construction (640312 bytes)
Tilt-up and precast concrete construction-addendum (49960 bytes)
Violence aggression and bullying at work (571789 bytes)
Working hours (149884 bytes)
Working hours risk management guidelines (99609 bytes)

Guidance note

Alcohol and other drugs at the workplace (746565 bytes)
Controlling wood dust hazards at work (20457 bytes)
Dealing with bullying at work-a guide for workers-Bahasa Malay) (65963 bytes)
Dealing with bullyingat work (a guide for workers)-(Chinese) (175733 bytes)
Dealing with bullying at work (a guide for workers) (English) (750573 bytes)
Fall prevention for scaffolders (168789 bytes)
Formal Consultative Processes:complete (763952 bytes)
Gas welding safety flashback arresters (1573847 bytes)
General duty of care in Western Australian workplaces (296372 bytes)
Guidelines for the development of industry codes of practice (84397 bytes)
Occupational safety and health management and contaminated sites (263399 bytes)
Plant design (485071 bytes)
Plant in the workplace (498181 bytes)
Powered mobile plant (650673 bytes)
Preparing for emergency evacuations at the workplace (530105 bytes)
Prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning (73097 bytes)
Provision of information on hazardous substances (MSDS) (442229 bytes)
Safe movement of vehicles at workplaces (326190 bytes)
Working alone (110592 bytes)
Working safely with forklifts (163176 bytes)

Guide

A guide to testing and tagging (73954 bytes)
Construction inducation awareness training changes (560745 bytes)
Hazardous or combustible dusts, fumes and fibres (83635 bytes)
Machine and Equipment Safety-An introduction (983139 bytes)
National standard construction:clients (67366 bytes)
National standard construction:contractors (96119 bytes)
National standard construction: designers (56987 bytes)
Priority area checklists (100079 bytes)
Priority_area_checklists_malay (336683 bytes)
Priority_area_checklists_mandarin (591453 bytes)
Safety tips for new and young workers (639668 bytes)
Skin cancer and outdoor work (698403 bytes)
Slips, trips and falls preventiong guide (49458 bytes)
SubbyPack (1129345 bytes)
The First Step (866383 bytes)
The First Step-Bahasa Malay (158371 bytes)
The First Step-Mandarin (502195 bytes)
The next step (300184 bytes)

Guideline

Armed hold-ups and cash handling (89051 bytes)
Construction safety training -information for providers (192617 bytes)
Industry guidance document Construction safety awareness (48940 bytes)
Multipurpose machine operators (78709 bytes)
Overhead power lines (217697 bytes)

Information kit

WorkSafe assessment (355879 bytes)

SafetyLine Magazine

For osh professionals-Issue 06 (213964 bytes)
For OSH Professionals Issue 2 (182229 bytes)
For OSH Professionals Issue 3 - June 2007 (65116 bytes)
For OSH Professionals Issue 4 - Sept 2007 (270654 bytes)
For OSH Professionals Issue 5 - Dec 2007 (50108 bytes)
For OSH Professionals Issue 7 - Sept 2008 (106202 bytes)
For Safety and Health representatives Issue 1 - Dec 2006 (207193 bytes)
For Safety and Health representatives Issue 2 - April 2007 (220165 bytes)
For Safety and Health representatives Issue 3 - July 2007 (474722 bytes)
For Safety and Health representatives Issue 4 - Sept 2007 (294520 bytes)
For Safety and Health representatives issue 5 - Dec 2007 (783397 bytes)
For Safety and Health Representatives-Issue 8-Sept 08 (326507 bytes)
For Safety and Health Representatives issue 9 (451730 bytes)
For Safety and Health Reps -Issue 06 -April 08 (609898 bytes)
For Safety and Health Reps Issue 10 April 2009 (2801133 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 1 - Dec 2006 (187407 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 2 - April 2007 (180403 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 3 - June 2007 (127858 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 4 - Sept 2007 (305532 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 5 - Dec 2007 (115385 bytes)
For Small Business Issue 6 - July 2008 (377630 bytes)
For Small Business issue 7 (93835 bytes)
SafetyLine Issue 61 - Aug 2005 (436708 bytes)
SafetyLine Issue 63 - April 2006 (343321 bytes)
SafetyLine Issue 64 - Sept 2006 (1765411 bytes)

Notes

Provisional Improvement Notices Extra notes (151413 bytes)

Poster

Come home safe poster (dad) (207530 bytes)
Come home safe poster (dizzy) (172930 bytes)
Come home safe -ways to make your workplace safe-flyer (647131 bytes)

Register

Demolition:contractors (69053 bytes)

Annual reports

Accredited training course for safety and health representatives (48740 bytes)

Campaign reports

National moving plant in civil contruction (246143 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 1996 (36946 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 1997-98 (37568 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 2002 (45059 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 2004 (54587 bytes)

Statistics

Construction (36343 bytes)