These health and safety tips provide general information on ways to manage the most common hazards and risks in your industry and will help to effectively manage health and safety in your workplace. However, every workplace is different so you must not take this information as being all that you need to do.
Key health and safety tips for formworkers
Find the injury statistics for your industry as well as practical information for making your workplace safe.
Injury statistics for disease related injuries (all industries)
Injury statistics for musculoskeletal disorders (all industries)
Injury statistics for traumatic injuries (all industries)
To manage safety and comply with your obligations, you need to understand the Act and regulations that apply.
Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008
Housekeeping, equipment and common plant
Work at heights
Abrasive Blasting Industry Code of Practice 2004
Concrete Pumping Code of Practice 2005
Steel Construction Code of Practice 2004
Tilt-up and pre-cast construction Code of Practice 2003
First Aid Code of Practice 2004
Formwork Code of Practice 2006
Mobile Crane Code of Practice 2006
Safe Design and Operation of Tractors Code of Practice 2005
Tunnelling Code of Practice 2007
Scaffolding Code of Practice 2004
Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice 2008
Personal protective equipment
Plant Code of Practice 2005
Noise Code of Practice 2004
Hazardous substances code of practice 2003
Manual Handling
Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2000
Risk Management Code of Practice 2007