OHS REPS @ WORK

Below is a list of some useful resources available on the internet:

Storage/Warehousing

• Order picking is one of the most hazardous areas. WorkSafe's webpage on Storage and Warehousing where Guide to Manual Order Picking and other guidance material can be downloaded. 
  
• The UK's Health and Safety Executive has a website for the warehousing industry, providing a single point for information and guidance. A new publication: Free leaflet: Keep it safe [pdf] - Help to reduce injuries and cases of occupational ill health.
• UK Retail union Usdaw has produced a guide: Distributing Safety - An Usdaw guide to health and safety in warehouses [pdf] for safety reps working in warehouses.  The guide contains guidance on slips and trips, manual handling, vehicle movements, lift trucks, falls from height, work in chillers and freezers, storage systems and welfare. More information
  

Transport

• The 4th edition of the Guide to Occupational Health and Safety – Transport Industry, produced by the Transport Industry Safety Group is available from the Transport Workers' Union website.  The guide was first produced in 1997 and revised in 2001 and 2003 by the Transport Industry Safety Group. The current 4th edition 2005 has been revised for the OHS Act 2004 and Chain of Responsibility legislation and was launched at the TWU Safety 2005 Seminar by Victorian Coroner Graeme Johnston. The Guide continues to be a central document for the transport, logistics, and storage sectors.
  
  
• WorkSafe Victoria's Transport Industry webpage and also: 
  • Cash in Transit - 32 page publication outlining practical guidance for Cash In Transit (CIT) employers, and duties of designers, managers, contractors and employees. The publication covers risk management, safety and security risk assessment, vehicles and robbery.
  • Prevention of falls in the transport of waste and recyclables
  • Prevention of falls in the transport of steel
    
    
• The Service Station Safety website has been developed in cooperation between the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) and the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) to provide practical advice to the independent service station industry relating to Occupational Health and Safety matters. Resources on the site include checklist, products trialled and much more.
• From WorkCover NSW: Collection of Domestic Waste: Code of Practice (July 2005) [pdf] - a practical guide to achieving the standard of safety required by the state’s OHS Act 2000 in the collection of domestic waste.
  
  
• The NSW Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Long Distance Truck Driver Fatigue) Regulation 2005, took effect on 1 March 2006.  The Regulation  requires employers of drivers and head carriers, undertaking this type of work, to ensure that the risk of harm arising from truck driver fatigue is either eliminated or appropriately managed. They will also need to develop and implement Driver Fatigue Management Plans (DFMPs) in consultation with their affected employees/drivers. NSW WorkCover has published a range of practical guidance materials for long distance truck driver fatigue on the transport and storage section of its website. One publication is Driver Fatigue Management: A Guide to Long Haul Trucking Trade
  
  
• From the UK's HSE:
  • specific guidance Safe transport in waste management and recycling facitilities [pdf].  The HSE’s workplace transport pages on the website also provide guidance in this area. guidance in this area.
  • Health monitoring for back pain in drivers of industrial and agricultural vehicles and plant
  • Waste and recycling vehicles in street collection [pdf] for employers, managers, supervisors and workers to help them remove or reduce the risk of injury caused by waste/recycling collection vehicles operating in the street

Trade

• From WorkSafe WA: an industry guidance document - Checkout Workstations in Retail - Safe Design and Work Practices (July 2005) [pdf]. The document ‘provides guidance to industry on applying the principles of hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control to the safe design of, and work practices involving, standing and seated workstations in the retail industry’.
  
  
• From WorkCover NSW, a Code of Practice: Cash in Transit (pdf), a guide: Robbery and Violence in the Retail Industry (pdf) and Factsheets: Managing the risk of robbery and violence in supermarkets and departments stores (pdf) and Managing the risk of robbery and violence in convenience stores and newsagents

• WorkSafe's Stevedoring industry page
• May 2008 publication: Working safely on the waterfront [pdf]