Health and community services - Publications by Type

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Safety and Health Alert

01-07 Portable overhead hoist (174648 bytes)
02-97 Caring for the aged (40142 bytes)
03-03 Two workers killed by mobile plant (45361 bytes)
05-01 Patient trolley injuries (33511 bytes)
07-01 Use of portable generators (38603 bytes)
08-03 Trip hazard (35900 bytes)
09-01 Mobile equipment on pedestrian ramps (34958 bytes)
09-08 MP3 players (29154 bytes)
10-95 Spiral staircases-business services (39950 bytes)
12-09_dry_powder_tanker (42580 bytes)
15-02 Collapse of operable (folding) wall (35782 bytes)
15-98 Ultraviolet radiation from mercury vapour (36879 bytes)
17-07 Tropical cyclones (48908 bytes)
17-94 Serious injury-work related stress (38943 bytes)
18-94 Fatal accident-hydrofluoric acid (30680 bytes)
24-95 Injuries associated with use of mobile phones (33491 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)
Electing safety and health representatives (160394 bytes)
Employer provided accomodation and general duty of care (152555 bytes)
Enforceable undertakings (144005 bytes)
Gloves-selection use and maintenance (152548 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)
Manual handling in the tyre industry (136810 bytes)
New licence for high risk work (664258 bytes)
Provisional improvement notice (165248 bytes)
Tips for investigating accidents and incidents (95496 bytes)

Code of practice

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)
Violence aggression and bullying at work (571789 bytes)
Working hours (149884 bytes)
Working hours risk management guidelines (99609 bytes)

Fact sheet

Catering (60970 bytes)
Challenging behaviour (64510 bytes)
Everyones business (57001 bytes)
Laundry staff (55925 bytes)
Supervisors (59783 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)
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)
Hazardous or combustible dusts, fumes and fibres (83635 bytes)
Machine and Equipment Safety-An introduction (983139 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)
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)
Multipurpose machine operators (78709 bytes)
Overhead power lines (217697 bytes)

Information kit

Home based care (108656 bytes)
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)

Annual reports

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

Campaign reports

ThinkSafe: evaluation 1996 (36946 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 1997-98 (37568 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 2002 (45059 bytes)
ThinkSafe: evaluation 2004 (54587 bytes)

Statistics

Health and community services 2004-05 to 2006-07 (34937 bytes)