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Provides practical guidance to employers who have obligations under Part 4 (Return to Work) of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (the Act) on how to comply with those obligations.

Provides practical guidance to those who have duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (the OHS Act) or Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007 (the Regulations) on how to comply with those duties or obligations.

Provides practical guidance for those who have duties or obligations in relation to confined spaces under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act) and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations).

Provides practical guidance for those who have duties or obligations in relation to demolition sites under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act) and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations).

Specifies minimum requirements for sunglasses, fashion spectacles and replacement filters that are nominally afocal (plano power)-excluding prescription filters-providing protection against solar radiation for general use including road use and driving.

Provides practical guidance for a person conducting a business or undertaking and workers on managing health and safety risks associated with tunnelling work.

Contains Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions that are considered to be acceptable forms of construction that meet the requirements for complying with Parts H1 to H8 of NCC Volume Two.

Identically adopts EN 81 3:2000+A1:2008, specifying safety rules for the construction and installation of permanently installed new electric service lifts with traction or positive drive, or hydraulic service lifts defined as lifting equipment, serving defined landing levels, having a car which is inaccessible, suspended by ropes or chains or supported by a ram and moving between rigid vertical guide rails or guide rails.

Provides practical guidance for those who have duties or obligations to communicate occupational health and safety matters in appropriate languages in workplaces under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act) and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations).

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.