OH&S Resources for Art and Design Students: Websites

Part of the Safe Work Australia website. You can search for information on hazardous substances.

A step-by-step guide to reduce or eliminate the health and safety risks of chemicals in the workplace.

This guidance note provides advice on minimising the risk to health from exposure to wood dust when handling and working with natural and manufactured wood.

This guide outlines the occupational health and safety (OHS) duties of wood product manufacturers to manage and eliminate injury risks among employees.

General safety tips for using woodworking machines for the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

A list of timbers that a woodworker in Australia might expect to come across.

A report on cotton and its impact on workers in the textile industry.

From the UK, this website will help you manage the main risks in textiles, as well as provide you with regular updates on health and safety issues.

Workers in the textiles industry can be injured when lifting, pushing, pulling and completing repetitive manual handling tasks. This document outlines common risk factors and how employers can develop risk control solutions for a range of tasks.

Includes American standards for the textile industry, hazard recognition information and other resources.

Endorsed by the Federal Government in National Cultural Policy 'Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place’, the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design sets out equitable, ethical and self-reflective standards for the professional Australian contemporary arts sector.

Manual handling is any activity requiring the use of force exerted by a person to lift, lower, push, pull, carry or otherwise move, hold or restrain any object

Find health and safety information useful to the Arts industry.

Australian Government site aimed at preventing workplace death, injury and disease.

Information for employers on health and safety requirements.

An Australian Government site aimed at reducing workplace injuries.

safe@work is a health and safety resource package for secondary school students who undertake workplace learning programs. It has information about hazard assessement, manual handling etc

Great site that has information about your rights to be safe at work.

A monthly professional magazine for corporate managers and specialists responsible for employee safety and health. Covers the areas of safety, health and hygiene, environmental hazards, fire, security and emergency protection, and disaster preparedness. P

Industrial safety, health/hygiene, plant protection