List of all publications and forms available

Important notice - electrical contractor licence renewal IS059

Information for applicants renewing electrical contractors' licences regarding changes to certificate of identification and new process from 1 Sept 2009

Size: 36.6 kb, 1 page

Format: Fact sheet

Important notice - electrical practitioner licence renewal IS058

Notice for electrical practitioners (electricians) renewing their licence regarding changes to certificate of identification and amended process commencing 1 Sept 2009

Size: 58.3 kb, 2 pages

Format: Fact sheet

Important Notice to shot-firer applicants

Notice of information that assists in completing the 'Consent to check and release Tasmania and National Police record politically motivated violence check' form in order to gain a character clearance.

Size: 26.8 kb, 1 page

Format: Fact sheet

Incident involving Weinig H22 moulding machine SA049 2-02

About an incident where an operator was injured while using a moulding machine. Explains contributing factors to the incident, and practical recommendations for avoiding similar incidents in your workplace. SA049

Size: 65.5 kb, 2 pages

Format: Safety alert

Incompatible international electrical fittings SA023 11-98

Explains practical recommendations for safe use of international electrical fittings in your workplace. SA023

Size: 64.2 kb, 2 pages

Format: Safety alert

Indoor pyrotechnic display GF009

This notification system is specifically designed for displays where pyrotechnic devices are used to highlight a part of an event i.e. indoor stage productions or Chinese New year celebrations etc.

Size: 44.1 kb, 3 pages

Format: Application form

Induction checklist GB148

A checklist for small business to assist with recording details of induction of employees in word format

Size: 41.0 kb, 2 pages

Format: Checklist

Induction checklist GB148

A checklist for small business to assist with recording details of induction of employees

Size: 39.3 kb, 2 pages

Format: Checklist

Induction for Construction Work COP018

Code of Practice - Induction for Construction Work (came into effect 19 Aug 2009). The Tasmanian Code calls up in full the National Code of Practice for Induction for the Construction Industry.

Size: 102.4 kb, 4 pages

Format: Code of practice; Internet only

Inflatable amusement structures SA022 10-98

About an incident where children were injured when they were thrown from an inflatable amusement castle that was lifted by gusty wind. Explains contributing factors to the incident, and practical recommendations for avoiding similar incidents in your workplace. SA022

Size: 79.4 kb, 2 pages

Format: Safety alert

Info sheet - Ammonium nitrate and explosives ISO031

Information for industry sectors handling ammonium nitrate and explosives.

Size: 108.3 kb, 5 pages

Format: Legislation guide

Info sheet - Dangerous Goods Bulk Drivers Licence IS006

If you intend to drive a vehicle carrying dangerous goods in bulk quantities by road in Tasmania, then you must have a dangerous goods bulk driver’s licence in addition to your normal car or truck driver’s licence.

Size: 33.6 kb, 2 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Information paper - Certificates of competency (Automotive gasfitting) IS043

Describes changes to certification system taking place from 1 July 2009.

Size: 120.2 kb, 9 pages

Format: Legislation guide

Information sheet - Certificate of Competency in Gas Fitting (Natural Gas) COC004

Regulation 39 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulations 1998 requires a person to be the holder of a certificate of competency in relation to the specified task they intend to perform.

Size: 27.1 kb, 2 pages

Format: Fact sheet

Information Sheet - Is Your Vehicle Licensed to Transport Dangerous Goods in Bulk? IS009

Information on whether your vehicle is licensed to transport dangerous goods in bulk

Size: 290.7 kb, 2 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Injured at work? PO013

Explains the four steps you should take if you are injured at work.

Size: 99.9 kb, A4 page

Format: Poster

Injury Management - Making it Work GB197

This guide introduces the concept of injury management: what it is and what makes it work. It encourages both employers and workers to look beyond simply meeting their legislative obligations in injury management, and to consider the benefits of actively embracing the management of injuries within their workplace.

Size: 625.7 kb, 16 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Injury Management Poster - Making it Work PO021

Poster of key components for making injury management work in your workplace.

Size: 46.7 kb, 1 page

Format: Poster

Injury Management Program Application Form

Licensed and Self Insurers Injury Management Program application form to be used when seeking approval for an Injury Management Program

Size: 36.0 kb, 2 pages

Format: Form

Install safety switches, they may save your life ESSP01

Poster - Install safety switches - They may save your life! Always use a licensed electrical contractor

Size: 365.4 kb, A4 page

Format: Poster

Installation Approval and Gas Fitting Notice Requirements DOC006

This information is provided to clarify the legal requirements for gas installation notification and to ensure that licensed persons and their customers are not unduly inconvenienced when a new meter fix or gas supply is sought.

Size: 90.5 kb, 2 Pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Is the wall behind that commercial catering equipment non-combustible? GIS14

Ensuring the wall behind commercial catering equipment is non-combustible.

Size: 53.4 kb, 2 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Is the wall behind that domestic cooking equipment non-combustible? GIS18

From time to time, serious incidents have occurred where a fire has started in a wall behind domestic cooking equipment.

Size: 26.1 kb, 2 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Isolating rotary dairy machinery SA060

About an incident where a dairy worker’s fingers were crushed by a rotary milking platform. Explains, contributing factors to the incident, and practical recommendations for avoiding similar incidents in your workplace.

Size: 120.1 kb, 2 pages

Format: Safety alert

Issue No 10 Nov GB064

Special workplace safe edition with articles on all winners at the workplace safety awards, fireworks permits, safety displays in Hobart and Launceston.

Size: 2.7 mb, 20 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 11 Jan GB064

Articles include new worker safety, shoes killing you, workplace bullying and harrassment, kidsafe campaign protecting kids from electrical dangers, workplace robots minimising injuries, stress, ohs strategy, cutting steel drums, concrete pumping accident, safety alerts.

Size: 1.7 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 12 April GB064

Articles include advertising scam, Australian explosives code, petroleum giant fined, panel beating industry hazards, defective gas heaters, heating water in microwave dangers, diving and the bends, aerial spraying, rural ohs, plant compliance audit, centrifuge safety, asbestos ban, snatch-block failures, faulty engine lifting equipment, ladder injury, kerosene heater ignites, conveyor accidents, safety alerts.

Size: 1.1 mb, 32 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 13 July GB064

Articles include new construction codes of practice, safety for railway restoration, impersonating inspector, workplace bullying, workplace safe week, electric blanket safety, workplace forum for rural industries, fatal fireworks explosion, tiger tails on powerlines, portable induction training for construction industry, solving ohs problems, safety alerts.

Size: 739.9 kb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 14 Oct

Articles include workplace safe week, laptops, explosives near miss, falls from roofs, guide on working at height, work experience not free labour, serious electrical accidents, driver dies in forklift accident, building maintenance industry alert, product safety recalls on consumer affairs website, prosecutions

Size: 564.2 kb, 24 pages

Format: Guidance booklet

Issue No 15 Nov GB064

Special workplace safe week edition. List of all winners for 2000 workplace safe awards.

Size: 710.4 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 16 Jan GB064

Articles include new and young workers, reporting serious accidents and dangerous incidents

Size: 778.7 kb, 32 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 17 Apr GB064

Articles include special rural feature, skin cancer risks to outdoor workers

Size: 664.4 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 18 Jul GB064

Articles include changes to the workers compensation legislation; smoking in the workplace

Size: 738.8 kb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 19 Oct GB064

Articles include ESSO gas blast; safety in the waste management/recycling industries

Size: 456.1 kb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 2 December GB064

Articles include Safety in the workplace for every week of the year, students in the workplace – managing the risk, Conservation Volunteers Australia, keeping volunteers SAFE, Mining Industry Working Hours Enquiry, Prosecutions, Electrical safety for plumbers, Recent Safety Alerts produced by Workplace Standards Tasmania

Size: 1.4 mb, 31 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 20 Nov GB064

Special edition of the 2001 Workplace Safe Awards winners

Size: 1.1 mb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 21 Jan GB064

Articles include staff training and inductions; mining industry working hour inquiry

Size: 750.8 kb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 22 Apr GB064

Articles include information on injury management, guide to developing codes of practice, safety procedures for security firms

Size: 973.3 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 23 July GB064

Articles include safety in the hairdressing industry, workplace safety in the woodcraft industry, workplace injuries and diseases and HIH levy.

Size: 1.0 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 24 Oct GB064

Articles include length of electrical cords, reinforced plastics and a safety alert on a chrome plated fire hydrant valve failure.

Size: 882.3 kb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 25 Nov GB064

Special edition of the winners of the 2002 Workplace Safe Awards.

Size: 2.1 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 26 Jan GB064

Articles include first aid training, fall arrest harnesses, gas safety with coffee machines

Size: 889.0 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 27 Apr GB064

Special rural edition. Including updates on specific rural publications, natural gas appliances and tractor safety.

Size: 1.0 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 28 Jul No 28 2003

Topics include new campaign 'It's working - Workplace Safe', ideas for Workplace Safe Week and armed robbery - a workplace hazard

Size: 1.1 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 29 Nov GB064

Special issue covering Workplace Safe Week and the Workplace Safe Awards

Size: 1.5 mb, 48 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 3 March GB064

Articles include launch of new workers campaign, changes to workers compensation medical certificate, meet the Standards sector, safety alert, information for hairdressers, safety milestone for Boags, alcohol and drugs in the workplace, projectiles from breast bench saws

Size: 656.7 kb, 19 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 30 Jan GB064

Includes articles on new workers, fork lift safety, forest harvesters, testing of electrical equipment and body strain publication update.

Size: 630.7 kb, 16 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 31 Apr GB064

Articles include new kit for new workers, free farm safety seminars, ATVs, electrical safety in the rural industry, tractor safety.

Size: 1.6 mb, 28 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 32 Jul GB064

Articles include rural safety, new measures in drug and alcohol testing to protect forest operators, ESRs.

Size: 1.5 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 33 Oct GB064

Articles include the rural safety blitz, ATV training, Hop industry, petrol fires and a new guide for small business

Size: 2.2 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 34 Nov GB064

Special edition focussing on the 2004 Workplace Safe Awards winners and finalists.

Size: 1.9 mb, 44 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 35 Jan 32 pages

Articles include ATV training, rural safety, forest machinery, new and young workers during hoilday periods,

Size: 1.1 mb, 32 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 36 Apr GB064

Articles include ATVs and helmets, rural publications, catch us at Agfest, confined space entry training, esr information and changes to the Workers Compensation Act.

Size: 1.5 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 37 Jul GB064

Articles include information on ROPs, chemical safety, potato harvesting, electrical safety tips and manual handling.

Size: 1.4 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 38 Oct Gb064

Articles include ATV training, 2005 Workplace Safe Week, ESRs and height safety in light commercial and residential construction.

Size: 2.5 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 39 Nov GB064

Special edition on 2005 Workplace Safe Awards winners and finalists.

Size: 2.4 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 4 June GB064

Articles include robots helping to prevent workplace injury, Hobart to host first national conference for vocational rehabilitation, manual handling, ohs, workers compensation statistical report, prosecutions

Size: 780.5 kb, 32 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 40 Jan GB064

Articles include rural safety at Exeter High, ohs presentation requests, manual hankdling, dangerous goods training, hazardous substances and boat builders, chain shot risk, Huon show, atvs and rops, children and tractors don't mix, prosecutions

Size: 1.1 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 41 Apr GB064

Articles include Workplace Safe Week 2006 information, rural safety publications, safety near skylights, OHS in construction industry, return to work for injured workers, forklift truck responsibilities, OHS committees, security-sensitive dangerous substances update

Size: 3.4 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 42 Jul GB064

Articles include safe work procedures, women in agriculture, rural industry safety, stress, Beaconsfield investigation

Size: 1.3 mb, 20 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 43 Oct GB064

Articles include ohs scammers, drug and alcohol misuse in forest industry, occupational licensing act 2005, good housekeeping

Size: 1.6 mb, 20 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 44 Nov GB064

Special edition of the 2006 Workplace Safe Awards. Includes winners and finalists.

Size: 2.9 mb, 44 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 45 Mar GB064

Features include new and young workers, asbestos exposure warning and national competencies for inspectors

Size: 1.6 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 46 Jun GB064

Features include the forest industry assesses risk to public, new WorkCover Advisory Unit and Workplace Safe Week 2007

Size: 1.2 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 47 Sept No 47 Sept

Features include Workplace Safe Week Oct 21-27, TAFE trade awards, owner-builders, alcohol and drugs in the workplace, new and young workers, machine safety, mining audits.

Size: 880.4 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 48 Dec Issue No 48 Dec 07

Special edition of Workplace Issues magazine containing all the winners and finalists of the 2007 Workplace Safe Awards. Also articles on workplace safe week and seminars and conferences that occured.

Size: 2.0 mb, 40 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 49 Mar Issue No 49 Mar 08

Contents include information on national campaign on manual handling, slips and trips, farmers and chemicals, high risk licence work and prosecutions.

Size: 859.3 kb, 20 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 5 Sept GB064

Articles include Incat improves safety record, Workplace Safe Week, Y2K, guidelines for screen based work, forklift truck training, long service leave, ladder safety, employee safety representatives, hazardous plant inspectors, safety map training.

Size: 1.1 mb, 32 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 6 January GB064

Articles include annual reports online, trades expo a great success, Tasrail, Royal Derwent, Eastlands safety promotion, roof plumbing safety night, armed robberies, incompatible international electrical fittings, asbrasive blasting and bridge maintenance painting workshop, confined space training, eye safety awareness, fatigue.

Size: 1.5 mb, 36 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 7 April GB064

Articles include Y2K problem, Play it SAFE with manual handling, bank training, mower incident, child safety on farms, man killed by falling tractor, chemicals in workplace, working in confined spaces, safety alerts, hoisting safety levels, investigator training for inspectors.

Size: 657.1 kb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 8 July GB064

Articles include what is a code of practice, forestry, logging and sawmilling code, abrasive blasting code, plant safety, tasmanian industrial commission, overload on work, cab guard, safety alerts, workplace safe awards, cleaning industry audit, loggers, safety angle at Agfest, tractor safety.

Size: 1.9 mb, 24 pages

Format: Magazine

Issue No 9 Oct GB064

Articles include what is ohs, extension cord safety, snake bites, service tasmania spreads safety message, inspector training, responsibility for volunteers, fire safety training, prosecutions and safety alerts.

Size: 1.3 mb, 16 pages

Format: Magazine

It's a fine line between 'do it yourself' and 'dead on arrival' ESSP02

Poster -It's a fine line between 'Do it yourself' and 'Dead on arrival' - Always use a licensed electrical contractor

Size: 353.2 kb, A4 page

Format: Poster