Removing hazards at the design or planning stage is often easier and cheaper to achieve than making changes later while the hazards become real risks in the workplace of [YOUR COMPANY NAME]. Safe design can result in various benefits including:

An SDS, previously familiar as a material safety data sheet (MSDS), is a document which provides information on the properties of hazardous chemicals, as well as how they affect health and safety in the workplace. It includes information on the identity, health and physicochemical hazards, safe handling and storage, emergency procedures, as well as disposal considerations. An SDS is a crucial tool for eradicating or minimising the risks associated with the use of hazardous chemicals in the workplace.

Plant refers to any machinery, appliance, equipment, tool, as well as any component or anything that fitted or connected to any of those things. Moreover, it includes items as diverse as cranes, lifts, machinery, computer, forklifts, conveyors, power tools, vehicles, and amusement devices. Plant is a major cause of injury and death in the workplace. There are various risks associated with the use of plant. And severe injuries can result from the unsafe use of plant including:

Risk refers to the possibility, which occurs when people are exposed to a hazard and harmed by it. Health and safety risks in [YOUR COMPANY NAME] should be managed, either by eliminating risks, or if this is not reasonably practicable, by minimising them. Hazard management is a long process, and it is used to improve the health and safety of the workplace. It is a problem-solving process aimed at identifying the problems, gathering information about them and solving them. The duty to manage work health and safety risks is placed on the ones conducting a business or undertaking, which can also include manufacturers, designers, importers, suppliers of plant, structures or substances, which are used for work. The process of managing risks described in this Code will help you decide and take necessary steps so that you can meet your duty of care under the WHS laws.

A person conducting a business or undertaking the primary duty, should ensure that workers and other persons are not exposed to health and safety risks arising from the business. There are several duty holders who have the responsibility to ensure that the work environment and facilities are without risk to health and safety. These include: 

A hazardous chemical refers to a chemical, which has the potential to cause harm to humans, or the environment, either by itself or through interaction with other factors. Hazards include skin irritations, carcinogens or respiratory sensitisers, which have an adverse effect on a worker’s health as a result of direct contact with or exposure to the chemical, mainly through inhalation, ingestion or skin contact. Physicochemical hazards usually result from a substance’s physical and chemical properties, as is the case with corrosive, flammable, explosive or oxidising substances.

An effective chemical management needs consideration of the safe, sustainable, responsible, as well as economical use of substances throughout the chemical lifecycle – from procurement, storage to use, transport and through to disposal. All particulars of dangerous chemical use are governed by an all-inclusive set of legislation to ensure the risks posed by substances that can be harmful to health or to the environment are sustainably controlled.   

HIV/AIDS is a global crisis and a daunting challenge to development and social progress. This disease caused by a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In a slowly manner the virus weakens a person’s ability to fight off other diseases by attaching itself to and destroying important cells that control and support the human immune system. 

First aid is the emergency care or treatment for the purpose of preserving life and minimising the consequences of injury or sudden illness until qualified medical assistance or emergency medical treatment is available. It also includes the treatment of minor injuries which would otherwise receive no treatment.