Do you work at a site covered by Comcare? Check out the Comcare Worker's Compensation Delegates guide.
Need to take sick or carer's leave? Know your rights – Personal Leave FAQ
There is an AMWU HSRs Facebook page where HSRs can share their stories and information - JOIN HERE
Resources
- Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN) Flow Chart
- AMWU COVID-19 Controls Checklist
- Managing risks associated with COVID-19 - Industry (Health and Safety) Standard
- 'Work Shouldn't Hurt' survey results
- Health and Safety survey poster
- Accident/incident -useful checklists - for internal use at a workplace
- Was the accident/incident investigation effective?
- Asthma and work
- Back Injuries
- Basic Health and Safety Rights
- Bullying
- Bullying Survey
- Beware spray painting mists
- Cancer and work
- For your doctor: cancer and the link to work
- For your doctor: cancer was it caused by work
- Can you hear?
- Casual_Workers_Health_and_Safety
- Chemical_Safety_Checklist
- Dangers of Diesel Fumes
- Dangers of Silica Dust
- Discomfort Survey
- Food industry - are your lungs protected?
- Hazards of Welding Fumes
- Health and Safety Reps and committees - see NSW flyer on how much more H&S Reps can do
- Health and Safety Rights Poster
- Health Monitoring for Workers
- Working in heat
- Injured at work - Do & Don't - wallet card
- Injured at Work Poster
- Laboratories - Dusty work in Assay labs
- Medical checkups - asked for by the employer
- Medical appointments - your rights
- Noise - Listen Up - Booklet
- Noise - its possible to engineer out noise
- Removing the risks - the basic approach
- Shift Work and Fatigue Fact Sheet
- Guidelines for working shiftwork
- Record of Consultation for NSW and ACT
- Record of Consultation for NT, SA, Queensland, Tasmania and Comcare
- Record of Consultation for Victoria
- Risk management process for manual tasks
- Serious Injury or fatality checklist
- Shiftwork and Fatigue Survey
- Sprains and Strains
- Shoulder injuries
- Welding and cancer - information from an industry body
- Welding work can make you feel sick
- Welding - safety of on-site structural welds
- Working at Heights
- Work and Dermatitis
- Work_and_Health
- Worker's rights & hazardous manual handling FAQs
AMWU 2019 Health and Safety Manual
Click through for individual chapters
- Alcohol and other Drugs
- Asbestos
- Asthma
- Bullying
- Cancer and work
- Confined spaces
- Contractor safety
- Electrical safety
- Exhaust and diesel fumes
- Hazardous chemicals
- Hot and cold
- Lung hazards
- Machinery and Equipment
- Mobile Plant - traffic management
- Noise
- Respiratory Protection
- Shiftwork Fatigue hours of work
- Spray Painting
- Welding
- Women's Health and Safety
Links to useful web sites
- Victorian union site for OHS Reps
- A union-friendly service: Workers Health Centre Sydney
- ACTU: SafeAtWork
- International health and safety: Hazards
- Work and cancer: Cancer Hazards
- Government WHS info and state and territory health and safety websites: SafeWork Australia
- Injured Workers Support Network: based in NSW with links to groups across the country
