How to manage work health and safety risks code of practice 2021 - Queensland

Description

You will need to comply with this code if you undertake any activity covered by work health and safety legislation. This includes:

  • conducting any business or undertaking while self-employed, employing others, or acting as a contractor
  • managing or controlling a workplace
  • designing, manufacturing, importing or supplying plant, substances or structures used for work.

This code provides practical guidance on how to comply with your work health and safety duties, including effective ways to identify and manage risks.

You will either need to comply with this code or an alternative method that sets an equivalent or higher standard of work health and safety.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Administering agency

Office of Industrial Relations

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland

Contact details

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