Manufacturing and Machining WHS Manual

This is the manufacturing and machining edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for machine shops, light engineering and manufacturing businesses, so you only need one of the two. It follows the work on the shop floor, with machine guarding in the order the WHS Regulation sets, lockout and stored energy, lathes, mills and CNC machines, presses and guillotines, overhead cranes and forklifts, coolants and chemicals, welding fume and combustible metal dust, and it points to the safe work method statements, permits and registers in our range that match. Businesses whose main work is structural fabrication and welded steel need the Metal Fabrication and Welding WHS Manual. The cover page is ready for your business name and logo. Part A is the management system, in 23 numbered chapters. Part B holds the full text of 76 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 35 for manufacturing and machining work), each on its own pages in the same editable file, so you can edit, issue and sign off each one without buying it separately.

What Is Included In Our Manufacturing and Machining WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for owners, supervisors, leading hands and machine operators
• Why a shop does not need a SWMS by law, the written safe work procedures this manual requires instead, and the site installation exception
• Licences and competency: forklift, dogging and rigging, bridge and gantry cranes, written authority for every machine
• Machine guarding in the order the Regulation sets, and the lockout process for stored energy
• Lathes, mills and CNC machines, presses, press brakes, guillotines and grinders
• Overhead cranes, lifting gear, forklifts and pedestrian traffic management
• Compressed air, pressure equipment, hydraulics and metalworking fluids
• Hazardous chemicals, welding fume, combustible metal fines, lead, silica and asbestos in old plant
• Noise, vibration, manual tasks, electrical safety, robots and conveyors, confined spaces and working alone
• Emergency planning and first aid, incident notification and return to work
• A list of the machining and manufacturing forms, registers and SWMS in our range, with when to use each
• Part B: the full text of 76 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 35 for manufacturing and machining work

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): the meaning of reasonably practicable (s 18), our primary duty of care (s 19), duties of persons who manage or control a workplace (s 20), management or control of plant (s 21), duties of designers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers and installers (ss 22 to 26), codes of practice (ss 26A, 274 and 275), duties of officers (s 27), duties of workers and others (ss 28 and 29), notifiable incidents (ss 35 to 39), consultation (ss 46 to 49), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), and no levy on workers (s 273)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): the electrical safety duty (s 30), codes of practice (ss 44 and 45), and electrical work licences (s 55)
• Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld): gas work and gas work licences (ss 725 and 726)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims and the employer’s injury report, rehabilitation and return to work
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): the general environmental duty (s 319) and the duty to notify of environmental harm (ss 320A to 320D)
• Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld): the value of a penalty unit (s 5(1)(d))
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): managing risks (ss 32 to 38), information, training and instruction (s 39), facilities, first aid, emergency plans and personal protective equipment (ss 40 to 47), remote or isolated work (s 48), airborne contaminants (ss 49 and 50), ignition sources and flammable material (ss 52 and 53), noise (ss 56 to 59), manual tasks (s 60), confined spaces (ss 62 to 77), falls (ss 78 to 80), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and sch 3), plant (chapter 5 and sch 5), construction work (chapter 6), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7 and schedules 10, 11 and 14), lead (part 7.2), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica (chapter 8A), and the dictionary (sch 19)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): the list of approved codes of practice and advisory standards
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead electric lines (ss 10 to 15 and sch 2), unsafe electrical equipment and protection of cords (ss 17 and 18), electrical equipment and safety switches in manufacturing work (ss 131 to 136), energised electrical work (ss 195 to 204), and notifying serious electrical incidents (s 292)
• Petroleum and Gas (Safety) Regulation 2018 (Qld): gas cylinders carried in vehicles (ss 141 to 144)
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (ss 5 and 7)
• 22 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 510 pages), A4 portrait, with a cover page ready for your business name and logo, a contents list, Part A (23 numbered chapters) and Part B (76 policies and procedures)
• Business details and document control typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• A WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Roles, procedures, a risk matrix, record-keeping periods, definitions and references
• Part B: the full text of 76 policies and procedures, each starting on a new page
• Links by name to the matching SWMS, forms and registers in our range

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.