Keeping your workplace safe and healthy is good for your business.
The Safe and Healthy Workplaces Resource Hub has been developed specifically for small businesses to help make it easy for you to create safer and healthier workplaces. It will provide you with practical resources including safety checklists and guidelines on a range of Work Health and Safety (WHS) topics to gradually implement over time.
How to maximise the resources?
If you are unsure of where to start, we have created a Pocket Guide to provide brief overview of the resources and explain to you how to use it. Download the week-by-week guide and get started today.
If you know what you are looking for, you can browse the resources by topics or use the search function.
To use the resources, simply view or download and customise them to suit your workplace.
Need assistance?
If you require any assistance, please email prevent@icare.nsw.gov.au and one of icare’s prevention team members will contact you to assist.
Practical WHS Resources for Small Businesses
Risk Management
Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems
Ergonomics
Communication
Emergency Management
Incident Management
Training
Workplace Mental Health
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Risk Management
This page provides guidelines and resources on how to identify and manage risk in the workplace.
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Risk Assessment
Risk assessment template
0.55 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this document to complete a risk assessment, and to determine and prioritize risk controls.
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Hazard Identification
Hazard identification & risk management procedure
1.04 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 17 Oct, 2024This Procedure describes the steps to identify hazards, assess risks, implement appropriate risk control measures, and monitor and review the effectiveness of the controls.
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Purchasing
Safety checklist prior to purchasing goods & services
0.74 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this checklist to identify and, where possible, eliminate hazards prior to the purchase of goods or services.
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Additional Resources
Hazardous chemicals risk assessment template
0.72 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this template to identify hazards and assess risks prior to using, storing and handling hazardous chemicals.
Working from home checklist
0.59 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this checklist to monitor and improve the safety of your home work environment, and to check that your workstation is ergonomically set-up.
Safe work instruction template
0.55 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this template to create safe work instructions, particularly for medium and high risk tasks.
Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems
This page that provides guidelines, checklists, and templates around WHSMS (Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems) in the workplace.
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Work Health and Safety
Work Health Safety & Wellbeing Policy
0.06 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This Policy describes the business's commitment to creating a safe workplace, and individual responsibilities for protecting employees, contractors, visitors and other persons against harm to their health, safety and wellbeing.
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping Policy
0.19 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This Policy describes housekeeping practices to assist with eliminating and controlling workplace hazards.
Ergonomics
This page provides guidelines around best practice workplace design to minimizes physical risk in the workplace.
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Workstation setup
Workstation setup checklist
0.54 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this checklist to assist with the ergonomic set-up of a workstation at a workplace.
Communication
This page provides resources on how to record safety communication in the workplace.
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Safety communication
Safety communication template
0.5 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this document to record WHS information that is shared with workers e.g. safety alerts, incidents and injuries and changes to policies and procedures.
Emergency Management
This page provides guidelines, checklists and templates on managing emergencies in the workplace.
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Emergency Evacuation
Emergency evacuation drill checklist
0.62 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this checklist to record and monitor the effectiveness of an emergency evacuation, and to record things to improve.
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First aid
First aid kit contents template
0.56 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this template to maintain the contents of a first aid kit.
Incident Management
This page provides guidance and resources on how to manage incidents in the workplace.
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Hazard, incident and investigation
Hazard, incident and investigation report template
0.67 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 22 Jul, 2024Use this form to record safety incidents including hazards, injuries, and near misses, and to investigate factors that led to the incident.
Training
This page provides resources and guidelines to consider while conducting training in the workplace.
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Training Attendance
Work Health and Safety Training attendance register
0.51 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this document to record the details of people who provide and attend training.
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Employee Induction
Employee Induction checklist
0.53 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this checklist to ensure employees receive the required information when being inducted or changing jobs.
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Additional Resources
Safety talk - attendance register
0.51 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this register to record the details of participants who attend toolbox meetings.
Safety talk - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
0.53 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 10 Apr, 2024Use this toolbox talk to provide information to workers on the type, usage, storage and care of PPE.
Workplace Mental Health
The workplace mental health page provides practical resources for employers to understand and manage psychosocial risk in the workplace.
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Psychosocial Safety
Psychosocial Risks Guidelines
0.3 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This document outlines practical steps to minimising psychosocial risk in the workplace.
Tips to improve psychological safety
0.88 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This document provides practical tips to improve psychological health and safety in the workplace.
Top 3 psychosocial risks
0.96 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 11 Jun, 2024This document outlines the three most relevant psychosocial risks in the workplace.
Psychosocial risk assessment - Guidelines
0.5 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This document outlines common psychosocial risk factors in the workplace to consider when preparing a risk assessment.
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Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct
0.04 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024The following example shows a standard code of conduct that can be used for your workplace. A code of conduct is a useful approach to creating respectful relationships between workers and clients.
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Bullying and Harassment
Preventing Bullying and Harassment
0.85 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024This document provides practical steps you can take to prevent bullying and harassment in the workplace.
Bullying and harassment policy
0.86 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 06 Jun, 2024The following example shows a standard bullying and harassment policy that can be used for your workplace. A bullying and harassment policy is a documented commitment to addressing bullying and harassment in the workplace.
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Wellbeing Calendar
Wellbeing Calendar
0.5 MB (PDF) | Uploaded 27 Jun, 2024Here is a list of health and wellbeing events held throughout the year that workplaces may wish to promote and organise initiatives to support workers health, safety and wellbeing.
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