Safe Work Australia releases draft Codes of Practice
Safe Work Australia has released six draft model work health and safety Codes of Practice and two guides for public comment.
The codes released for public comment are:
- Managing Risks in Forestry Operations
- Industrial lift trucks
- Cranes
- Amusement devices
- Managing Risks of Plant used in Rural Workplaces, and
- Managing Security Risks in the Cash-in-transit Industry
The draft guides released for public comment are: Guide for Managing Risks in Cable Logging, developed to support the draft Code for forestry operations; and Guide for Tunnelling.
The codes and guides can be accessed on the Safe Work Australia website. The public comment period for these Codes of Practice closes on 24 August 2012.
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