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The national workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica has been halved from an eight hour time-weighted average airborne concentration of 0.1 milligrams per cubic metre (mg/m3) to 0.05 mg/m3; this new workplace exposure standard takes effect in Queensland from 1 July 2020.

Silicosis is preventable by using proper controls to eliminate or minimise expo sure to respirable crystalline silica dust in the workplace.

If you mark any NO box on the checklist, you need to take action to make your workplace safer.

This Safety Management Toolkit is aimed at employers and owners in small business — now known as Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU), which is explained more in this Toolkit. It will also be useful for managers.

Explains how to use correctly use timber to create safe temporary guardrails.

An initiative of the WorkCover Tasmania Board delivered by WorkSafe Tasmania.

Provides practical guidance for persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to manage risks associated with respirable crystalline silica (RCS) exposure in construction work; manufacturing of construction elements.

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace; this includes architects, building designers and engineers; this Code is also relevant for anyone making decisions that influence the design outcome, such as clients, developers and builders.

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to comply with their health and safety duties relating to scaffolds, scaffolding and scaffolding work.

Provides advice aimed at preventing the risk of injury or death to persons undertaking steel construction and other persons at the workplace.