On hire employment services resources

Placing workers in safe workplaces

This handbook provides a step-by-step approach to ensuring safety is a part of the way an agency does business and basis on which it approaches all job placements. The handbook covers integration of safe work practices into a labour hire agency's business framework; the gathering of information required to assess safety - including various action, checklist and assessment sheets tailored for labour hire needs.

• Placing workers in safe workplaces [626KB]

Labour Hire

• Host Employers: Managing the safety of Labour Hire Workers [53KB]
• Labour Hire Agencies: Managing the safety of on-hired workers [52KB]

Information for host employers

These guidelines help host employers understand their legal obligations towards agency workers and practical tools to assist in meeting their obligations.

• 'Host employer' OHS&W responsibilities [608KB]
• The 'host employer' guideline for managing the safety of labour hire workers [540KB]
• How and when to write policies and procedures [292KB]
• Agreed actions sheet [46KB]
• Assessment of host employer system for managing OHS [104KB]
• Employee induction assessment sheet [15KB]
• First contact checklist: Host employer information [131KB]
• Hazard register [33KB]
• Hazard/ incident/ accident report form [28KB]
• Host employer induction checklist [18KB]
• Job and training record [26KB]
• Job safety assessment [299KB]
• Labour hire agency induction checklist [17KB]
• Labour hire agency occupational health and safety health check [81KB]
• Monitoring inspection record [33KB]
• Training register for permanent staff [102KB]
• Training register for temporary staff [94KB]
• Guidelines for managing health and safety in the labour hire industry [168KB]

Injury management guide for Labour Hire Agencies

These guidelines have been developed as a basis for managing the injury management and rehabilitation process for all companies involved in the labour hire industry.

• Injury management guide for labour hire agencies [472KB]
• Injury management policy statement [18KB]