Alcohol and drugs

Alcohol, drugs and other substance misuse affects workplace health and safety.

Asbestos

Asbestos safety, asbestos removal and managing asbestos risk in the workplace.

Bullying

Workplace bullying and its impact on health and safety and how to manage the risks of workplace bullying.

Confined spaces

Confined spaces may pose a danger because they are not designed to be areas where people work.

Construction and demolition

Information for the construction industry including demolition and infrastructure construction.

Dangerous goods and hazardous chemicals

Managing the risks associated with dangerous goods, explosives and hazardous chemicals.

Diseases and health

Workers can be exposed to diseases while at work. Learn how to manage the risk of exposure to diseases in the workplace.

Dust and fibres

Dusts can contain hazardous materials for which a workplace exposure standard exists.

Electricity

Identify hazards and control the risks of injury from exposure to electricity.

Environmental factors

Advice on working in heat, cyclones, electrical storms and bushfires.

Fatigue

Work-related fatigue is an acute and/or ongoing state that leads to physical, mental or emotional exhaustion.

Manual tasks

Learn how to identify which manual tasks in your workplace are hazardous and how to manage the risks.

Noise and vibration

Understand work-related noise risks and vibration hazards, and how to manage them.

Office safety and working from home

Understand the common hazards and risks in office work, and ways to make work safer.

Plant, machinery and equipment

Types of plant including safe practices when working with or near plant, machinery or equipment.

Psychosocial hazards

A psychosocial hazard is anything that could cause psychological harm (e.g. harm someone’s mental health).

Silica

Silica including crystalline silica, duties and how to manage exposure risk in the workplace.

Slips, trips and falls

Each year slips, trips and falls cause thousands of preventable injuries.

Stress

Work-related stress can have major impacts on health and safety.

Violence and aggression

Impact on health and safety and learn how to manage the risks.

Working alone

Working alone in remote or isolated places can create risks to health and safety and these must be managed.

Working at height

Falling from a height can cause serious injury or death. Follow simple procedures to avoid harm and keep safe when working at heights.