SafeWork releases draft Codes of Practice
PrintSafeWork Australia has released the next six draft model work health and safety Codes of Practice and two guides for public comment.
The documents will provide employers, industry and workers with the most up to date guidance for implementing the required changes under the Federal Government work health and safety laws.
The codes released today for public comment are:
- Managing Risks in Forestry Operations
- Industrial lift trucks
- Cranes
- Amusement devices
- Managing Risks of Plant used in Rural Workplaces, and
- Managing Security Risks in the Cash-in-transit Industry.
The draft guides released for public comment are:
- Guide for Managing Risks in Cable Logging, developed to support the draft Code for forestry operations, and
- Guide for Tunnelling.
The Chair of Safe Work Australia, Mr Tom Phillips AM encouraged businesses, industry and workers to get involved with the development of practical guidance to further improve work health and safety performance in Australia.
“Despite significant improvement in work health and safety in recent years more can still be done to keep Australian workers free from death, injury and disease,” said Mr Phillips.
Input from business, industry and the wider community will help make these documents become practical resources in the workplace and assist duty holders comply with the new WHS laws.”
The codes and guides can be accessed on the Safe Work Australia website
The public comment period for these Codes of Practice closes on 24 August 2012.
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