Topics covering issues such as manual tasks, sprains and strains, musculoskeletal injuries.

Ceiling hoists
Load handling
Manual tasks
People handling
Slips, trips and falls

Workers in many industries may be at risk of exposure to infectious diseases from contact with infected people and animals or from handling contaminated items such as used needles or syringes. Other hazards can include moulds, fungi, bacterial and viral contamination in the workplace that can lead to illnesses.

Biological hazards
CMV (Cytomegalovirus)
Legionella
Swine influenza

Workers in many industries may be at risk from chemicals and substances. Hazards can arise from excessive airborne concentrations of mists, vapours, gases or solids that are in the form of dusts or fumes. Many of these materials can be absorbed through the skin, inhaled or inadvertently ingested.

Asbestos
Cytotoxic drugs
Lead
Paint (lead-based)
Silica
Spray painting

These can include noise and extremes of temperature and pressure.

Heat stress
Noise
Sun safety

Topics covering issues such as occupational stress workplace harassment, workplace aggression and violence, fatigue, safety culture and safety behaviours.

Fatigue
Harassment
Stress
Violence

Occupational diseases may result from a variety of biological, chemical, physical and psychosocial factors that are present in the work environment or are otherwise encountered in the course of employment.

Vaccine-preventable diseases - immunisations
Communicable diseases
Q Fever
Occupational asthma (PDF, 226 kB)
Occupational cancer (PDF, 112 kB)
Occupational dermatoses (PDF, 107 kB)
Occupational respiratory conditions (PDF, 121 kB)
Ototoxins (PDF, 105 kB)
Pesticides, herbicides and organochlorines (PDF, 208 kB)