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.