Transport and storage - Publications by Type

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Safety and Health Alert

01-05 Failure of domestic step ladder (40423 bytes)
01-06 Container side lifter overturns (114801 bytes)
01-09 Driver fatigue (41596 bytes)
02-06 Lifting containers with cranes (44147 bytes)
02-07 Safe movement of vehicles (43106 bytes)
02-08 Commercial vehicle roll-over#2 (37879 bytes)
02-98 Truck safety (34486 bytes)
03-03 Two workers killed by mobile plant (45361 bytes)
03-07 Rail worker fatally injured (42511 bytes)
04-00 Shunter injured whilst aligning buffers during shuntin (35182 bytes)
05-04 Transport company operator fatally injured by falling (36436 bytes)
05-07 Driver fatigue contributes to fatality (45388 bytes)
07-01 Use of portable generators (38603 bytes)
08-00 Deckhand crushed against jetty by river ferry (34887 bytes)
08-03 Trip hazard (35900 bytes)
08-95 Driver killed by runaway diesel truck (38984 bytes)
09-01 Mobile equipment on pedestrian ramps (34958 bytes)
09-03 Commercial vehicle driver succumbs to driver fatigue (46178 bytes)
09-05 Lack of maintenance on road train leads to joint actio (120944 bytes)
09-08 MP3 players (29154 bytes)
10-95 Spiral staircases-business services (39950 bytes)
11-03 Employer injured while slinging loads (42660 bytes)
12-01 Unsafe use of tractors modified for use as forklifts (34464 bytes)
12-06 Truck driver fatally injured (37270 bytes)
12-09_dry_powder_tanker (42580 bytes)
12-97 Dangers of carrying equipment under the tray of truck (34300 bytes)
13-04 Truck driver injured by falling earthmoving tyres (47088 bytes)
14-01 Employee falls from pallet (33806 bytes)
14-04 Truck driver killed winching a sea container onto truck (45101 bytes)
14-09 Driver overcome by fumes (41892 bytes)
15-02 Collapse of operable (folding) wall (35782 bytes)
15-95 Driver burnt in LPG explosion (33956 bytes)
15-98 Ultraviolet radiation from mercury vapour (36879 bytes)
17-07 Tropical cyclones (48908 bytes)
18-94 Fatal accident-hydrofluoric acid (30680 bytes)
18-99 Static electicity suspected of igniting petrol (45336 bytes)
21-96 Operator crushed by truck tipper body (34556 bytes)
23-01 Inadequate communication with isolated employees (38383 bytes)
24-00 Equipment fitted to work vehicles (34170 bytes)
24-95 Injuries associated with use of mobile phones (33491 bytes)
24-96 Burns from car refuelling with LPG (33626 bytes)
25-96 Use of a forklift with an attachment (34337 bytes)
31-95 Fork-lift driver crushed (39440 bytes)
34-00 Waste bin truck fatality (42927 bytes)
37-99 Explosion of wheelbarrow tyre during inflation (34790 bytes)
39-99 Pressurised canister explodes injuring apprentices han (36725 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)
Driver fatigue (149152 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)
Industrial guidance for the safe operation of tilt-tray vehicles (87552 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)
Tips for investigating accidents and incidents (95496 bytes)

Code of practice

Fatigue management for commercial vehicle drivers (159922 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)
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)
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)
Guidance on driver fitness for duty (13891 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)
Staying alert at the wheel (534477 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

Fish wholesalers (123076 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

Transport and storage (39075 bytes)