Safeguards

Please note that new work health and safety legislation commences in South Australia from 1 January 2013.

The Safeguard information sheet series is developed and issued by SafeWork SA to provide guidance, on a particular aspect of legislation, to assist industry manage, eliminate or minimise safety risks.

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Alphabetical Listing of Safeguards

A guide to a Smoke-free Workplace
A Guide to Hazardous Substance Regulations
Access Requirements on Above Ground Fuel Storage on Farms
Adhesives and Sealants
Agricultural Motorbikes
Angle grinder safety
Asbestos-based friction Materials
Asbestos-Cement (Fibro) Sheeting
Asbestos: Registers and Signage Safeguard
Asbestos Removal
Auto Gas Fitters

Basic Accident Investigation Techniques
Brush Cutter Safety

Chain Saw Safety
Child Safety on the Farm
Class 3 Dangerous Substances
Class 6 & 8 Dangerous Substances
Class Labels
Computer Workstation - Design Guidelines
Construction Site Safety 1
Construction Site Safety 2
Contact Dermatitis
Conveyor Safety
Cutting Wheel Safety

Degreasing Equipment
Description of Packaging Groups
Disc grinder safety in the shearing industry
Disposal of Marine Distress Flares

Elevating Work Platforms
Explosive carriage boxes
Explosives for target practice

Falling Hay Bales
Fibreglass Reinforced Products
Fire and explosion risks at wineries
Firewood Saws
First Aid
Forklift Safety
Forklift Work Platforms

Hair protection
Hazard of electric treatment tables (or beds) with power assisted lifting mechanisms
Hazards of Cutting Empty drums
HAZCHEM Codes
Heat Stress
Horizontal Boring Machines

Indoor Shooting Range Fire Hazards
Installed Asbestos: Register and signs
Isolated work at rural and remote properties

Keeping staff safe in remote and isolated locations

Laboratory Safety 1
Laboratory Safety 2
Ladders
Lead/Acid - Batteries and Battery Charging
Local Exhaust Ventilation
LPG - Class 2 Dangerous Substance
LPG Decanting

Material Safety Data Sheets
Managing Health and Safety
Mincing Machines
Minor Mercury Spillage

Noise Control in the Workplace

Pesticide Safety
Photocopiers in Workplaces
Plant Isolation Procedures - Lockout, Danger and Out of Service Tags
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Procedure - Immediate Threat to Health and Safety

Resolution of Health and Safety issues (Safeguard No GS65/1)

Safe Handling of Tyre and Rim Assemblies
Safe Handling of Syringes or Sharps
Safe working with solvents
Safety for young workers
Safety of Crane Lifting Operations on Construction Sites
Shearing Shed Safety
Shopping Trolley Collection
Shopping Trolley Maintenance
Sick Building Syndrome
Spray Painting
Stockyard Safety
Suspended Scaffolding

Telescopic Handler - Operator Training and Certification Requirements
Tractor and Rural Machinery Safety
Transporting Dangerous Goods by Road
Trenching and Excavation

Use of 'Third Party' MSDS databases and MSDS
Use of bed poles (also known as bed sticks or double-sided bed sticks)

Vehicle Service Pits
Vehicles Fitted with LPG Fuel Systems
Visual Display Units and Radiation

Welding and Cutting
Welding - Electrical Safety
Welding - Hazard Control
Welding - Metal Fumes
Working in confined spaces
Working on Fragile Roofing
Workplace Stress

Zoonoses