Restricted entry intervals for pesticides – quick guide (PDF 988 KB)
TYPE: Quick guideTOPIC: Air quality, Chemicals, Clean air, Hazardous substances, Hazardous substances - insecticides, Health and safety at work
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OPCs are insecticides used to control insect pests – they pose significant risk to human health, and many are no longer approved for use. This guide is for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and sets out OPCs’ effects on human health and what you can do to minimise the risk.
These guidelines provide good practice advice for how to plan, carry out, and report the results of an asbestos survey.
This fact sheet provides brief guidance for a business on how to manage work-related health and safety risks.
This position sets out what we expect persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) to do when using new technology. It also outlines how we’ll approach and enforce our expectations.
This policy outlines the approach WorkSafe will adopt when considering whether to take remedial action. WorkSafe can take remedial action by engaging contractors to make the workplace or situation safe where a duty holder fails to take reasonable steps to comply with a prohibition notice or where a prohibition notice cannot be issued because a duty holder cannot be found.
There’s often uncertainty about how the Health and Safety at Work Act (2015) (HSWA) applies when people access land for recreation. This policy clarification explains our view on the responsibilities of the PCBU and visitors, and how we'll manage and respond to related concerns.
This policy sets out how we work with victims of work health and safety and energy safety incidents.
This policy sets out the approach we take to using search warrants or production orders under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (SSA)
This policy clarifies how we’ll respond to situations involving hazardous substances that may justify the use of Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) imminent danger powers, and/or Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO) emergency powers.
This policy sets out our approach to prosecution, including our decision-making process.
This policy sets out how we use our authority to approve methods for managing the risk associated with asbestos at workplaces and how we treat these methods once approved.
This policy sets out how we respond when a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) isn’t compliant with hazardous substances disposal controls or ecotoxic controls.
This position sets out our expectations of how persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) should manage musculoskeletal health and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs).
A framework that guides inspectors through the thought process to decide on an enforcement response.
This policy sets out how we carry out our main role as the primary work health and safety regulator. Its purpose is to be transparent about how we
make decisions to intervene, and to guide our practice to be consistent and proportionate.
This policy sets out how we decide to apply for a court order under section 122 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA).
Find a list of registered amusement devices.
This guidance is for a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU). It is for PCBUs that want to work out, based on the hazardous substances they use, make or hold: whether their workplace requires a ‘hazardous substance location’ (HSL), or whether they will need a location compliance certificate (LCC).