Codes of practice for work health and safety
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A code of practice provides practical guidance for your business on how to achieve health and safety standards required under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act). A code of practice also has effective ways to identify and manage risks.
If you are conducting a business in Queensland, you must comply with an approved code of practice under the Act. You can use another method, such as a technical or an industry standard – as long as it provides an equivalent or higher standard of work health and safety to the standard required in the code.
Current codes of practice are:
- Abrasive blasting code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Amusement devices code of practice 2023
- Cash in transit code of practice 2011 (PDF, 762KB)
- Children and young workers code of practice 2006 (PDF, 427KB)
- Concrete pumping code of practice 2019 (PDF, 2MB)
- Confined spaces code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Construction and operation of solar farms code of practice 2024 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Demolition work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 673KB)
- Electrical safety codes of practice 2020:
- Excavation work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.9MB)
- First aid in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 491KB)
- Forest harvesting code of practice 2007 (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Formwork code of practice 2016 (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Foundry code of practice 2004 (PDF, 725KB)
- Hazardous manual tasks code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Horse riding schools, trail riding establishments and horse riding establishments code of practice 2002 (PDF, 630KB)
- How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1MB)
- How to manage work health and safety risks code of practice 2021 (PDF, 670KB)
- How to safely remove asbestos code of practice 2021 (PDF, 2.2MB)
- Labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements code of practice 2022
- Managing respirable dust hazards in coal-fired power stations code of practice 2023
- Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Managing risks in stevedoring code of practice 2023 (PDF, 846KB)
- Managing the risks of plant in the workplace code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.7MB)
- Managing the risk of falls at workplaces code of practice 2021 (PDF, 4MB)
- Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work code of practice 2022
- Managing the work environment and facilities code of practice 2021 (PDF, 558KB)
- Manual tasks involving the handling of people code of practice 2001 (PDF, 1.2KB)
- Mobile crane code of practice 2006 (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Occupational diving work code of practice 2005 (PDF, 533KB)
- Preparation of safety data sheets for hazardous chemicals code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Recreational diving, recreational technical diving and snorkelling code of practice 2024 (PDF, 606KB)
- Rural plant code of practice 2004 (PDF, 454KB)
- Safe design and operation of tractors code of practice 2005 (PDF, 511KB)
- Safe design of structures code of practice 2021 (PDF, 749KB)
- Scaffolding code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Spray painting and powder coating code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Steel construction code of practice 2004 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Sugar industry code of practice 2005 (PDF, 626KB)
- Tilt-up and pre-cast construction code of practice 2003 (PDF, 979KB)
- Tower crane code of practice 2017 (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Traffic management for construction or maintenance work code of practice 2008 (PDF, 817KB)
- Welding processes code of practice 2021 (PDF, 986KB)
- Work health and safety consultation, co-operation and co-ordination code of practice 2021 (PDF, 443KB)
Also consider...
- Find out more about work health and safety in Queensland.