The Health and Safety Representative (HSR) Handbook is an essential resource designed to empower HSRs and businesses alike. The handbook is an easy reference guide to help users understand the powers, functions, and entitlements of HSRs, and the role they play in ensuring safe outcomes in the workplace. Whether you're a HSR or employer, this handbook is your go-to guide for understanding the role of HSRs.
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Agriculture
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Automotive
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- Vehicle hoists, jacks, ramps and stands
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Construction
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- Abolishment of electricity supply
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Mining & Quarrying
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Workers
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Health & Wellbeing
- Healthy workers & workplaces
- Air pollution and bushfire smoke
- Alcohol & Drugs
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- Challenging behaviour
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- Health monitoring
- Heat & UV
- Biological hazards
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Sexual harassment
- Slips, trips & falls
- Smoking
- Violence
- Work life balance
- Hazardous Noise and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)
- Personal protective equipment
- Respiratory protective equipment
- Discriminatory, coercive and misleading conduct
- Wages & Conditions
- WHS issue resolution
- Injured worker support services
- Induction
- Family and domestic violence in the workplace
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Workplaces
- Managing health and safety risks
- Work from home
- Electrical
- Emergency response
- Hazardous manual tasks
- Work sites & facilities
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Work tasks & projects
- Abolishment of electricity supply
- Abrasive blasting
- Demolition work
- Edge protection for roof work (guardrail systems)
- Electrical installations or services
- Electrical work
- Electrical risks at the workplace
- Excavation work
- Formwork
- Fragile roofing
- Hazardous manual tasks
- Inspection and testing of electrical equipment
- Installing prefabricated timber roof trusses
- Installing roof battens
- Lead risk work
- Managing risk of falls for solar panel installations
- Spray painting and powder coating
- Stairwells, atriums and voids
- Tree felling
- Welding
- Working near utility services
- Working in ceiling spaces
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Plant, tools & vehicles
- Angle grinders
- Chainsaws
- Circular saws
- Diesel exhaust
- Earthmoving equipment
- Elevating work platforms
- Firewood saws
- Forklifts
- Guarding
- Hand & power tools
- Hardened steel tools
- Hydraulic fluid and fittings
- Isolation procedures
- Ladders
- Lifts & lift design (commercial)
- Lift registration (private residences)
- Mobile plant
- Multipurpose tool carriers
- Nail guns
- Pressure plant & equipment
- Plant
- Plant hydraulic systems
- Quad bikes
- Synthetic fibre slings
- Tractors
- Tyres, compressed air and split rims
- Wood chippers
- Vehicles as a workplace
- Simple Steps to Safety
- Codes of Practice
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Entry permit holders
- What is an EPH?
- Obtaining an entry permit
- Notice to SafeWork SA of proposed entry
- Notice of entry to PCBU
- Exercising a right of entry
- Entry for a suspected contravention
- Entry to consult with workers
- Access to records or documents
- Appropriate behaviours for PCBUs and EPHs
- Disputes
- Revocation of entry permit
- WHS civil penalty provision
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Chemicals & substances
- Adhesives and sealants
- Airborne contaminants
- Asbestos
- Carbon monoxide
- Chemical labelling
- Chemical storage, handling & security
- Contact dermatitis
- Diesel exhaust
- Dry ice and cryogenics
- Fibreglass reinforced products
- Flammable liquid storage and transport
- Hand sanitiser
- Hazardous and cytotoxic drugs
- Hazardous chemicals
- Hydraulic fluid and fittings
- Lead acid batteries
- LPG bottle labelling
- Mercury
- Metal-Working Fluids
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls
- Refrigerants
- Respirable crystalline silica
- Safety data sheets
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- Psychosocial hazards
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