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Provides useful information for common health and safety issues on small construction sites relevant to New South Wales WHS laws.

This document provides a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on health problems associated with building moisture and biological agents.

This guideline aims to provide advice to building owners and facility managers of the issues associated with the continued use of refrigerant R22 in air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and to encourage the development of strategies for the planned management, recovery, reclamation or safe destruction of this ozone depleting substance.

Sets out minimum requirements for the analysis, design and construction of concrete structures and members which contain reinforcing steel, or prestressing tendons or both, and requirements for plain concrete structures and members; the Standard applies to concrete with a characteristic compressive strength in the range of 20 MPa to 50 MPa and a density in the range 1800 kg/m(sup)3(/sup) to 2800 kgm(sup)3(/sup).

AS 1684.2 2010 specifies requirements for the building industry with procedures that can be used to determine building practice, to design or check construction details, and to determine member sizes, and bracing and fixing requirements for timber-framed construction in non-cyclonic areas.

This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.

This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who use ladders.

This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction site supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who work on large prefabricated modular scaffolds.

Safety signs inform and warn you of hazards and risks in the workplace, tell you what to do in an emergency situation and show you how to protect yourself and work safely.

The Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA) requires all persons conducting a business or undertaking to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers and other persons are not put at risk from work carried out as part of the business or undertaking; this includes asbestos removal work, asbestos-related work and the risk of exposure to airborne asbestos.