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Workplace Health and Safety

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Workplace Health and Safety Queensland

Hazard Observations

Brisbane Markets Site


Hi Visibility Clothing – Optional?


Legal Duty

Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking(S19-26)

- WHS Act requires PCBU’s to ensure the H&S of workers, so far as is reasonably practicable.

Workers (S28 Act) - While at work, workers are required to take reasonable care for their

own H&S and that of others who are affected by their actions or omissions.

- Co-operate with any reasonable instruction, policy or procedure of PCBU to comply with WHS Act & Regs and to assist the PCBU to manage risk.

If the worker is required to wear HI Vis - The PCBU has the obligation to ensure it is worn


Pallet Racking – What’s the Hazard


Legislation

Management of risks

Pallet racking must be maintained in good order

If damage is present, any pallets stored in the bay

which is damaged should be removed and the

racking should be inspected by a competent

person


Forklift Gas Cylinders


The Good , The Bad and


storing of cylinders Upside

Down


• LPG gas cylinders should be stored

outdoors in a well ventilated area.

• LPG gas cylinders should not be stored

indoors

• LPG storage areas must be free from

sources of ignition.

• LPG cylinders must always be stored

upright so that the pressure relief valve is

in the vapour section of the cylinder.


Some cylinders seem to live

inside buildings


Flammable Liquids (Fuel)

Flammable Liquids must:

• be stored away from sources of ignition

• In a well ventilated area


The things you see


Cold Rooms

How safe is your cold room?

• Could you or your workers be trapped

inside

• Does the cold room have an alarm or a

bell to use

• Can the doors can be opened from the

inside without a key - Is there a inside

release mechanism

• Is lighting and a light switch available in

the cold room.


Could you be locked in


Do you have a spanner?


Is this your bell


This is what should be on the

inside of the door


Confined spaces

Cold rooms may not be a confined space

However – if you use an LPG powered

forklift inside the cold room harmful levels of

carbon monoxide can build up

Do you fumigate or use a gas inside a cold

room ? You might be creating a serious risk


What’s Your WLL

Do you store pallets or boxes or stuff on top

of your cold room?

Do you know the Working Load Limit of

your cold room roof?

Or will you load it up until the roof falls in


Bad Habits Observed

The following slides are observations

made whilst walking around the markets


Which Cylinder is connected to

the forklift?


Would you park a forklift on a walkway and create

and create an obstruction?


Would you want your forklift to be left unattended

with the key in it – Should I take the key to the

market Office?


Working at Heights


Other Issues Seat Belts

Driving in reverse with no load or a low load on the forklift

Blocking vision in the undercover area


Any Questions?

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