Working from Home Safety Policy & Procedure Template
Editable Word working from home safety policy and procedure for Queensland businesses: home workspace self-assessment, equipment, electrical safety, psychosocial risk, check-ins and incidents.
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Written by Ryan Graham, health and safety professional (16 years on Queensland sites)
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About this template
Suits businesses with staff or contractors who work from home full time, part time or on a hybrid roster. It sets out what we can reasonably do for a worker’s home workspace and where the worker takes the lead.
What Is Included In Our Working from Home Safety Policy & Procedure?
- Policy statement with an approval sign-off
- Why the duty of care still applies at home
- Agreeing and recording an arrangement
- Home workspace self-assessment approach
- Equipment loans and electrical safety
- Workstation set-up and hazardous manual tasks
- Check-ins and isolated work
- Psychosocial risks and monitoring
- Family and domestic violence response
- Incident reporting and notification prompts
- Records, privacy and review
- Related documents and legislation references
Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): s 5 (PCBU), s 7 (worker), s 8 (workplace), s 19 (primary duty), s 20 (management or control of a workplace), s 28 (duties of workers), ss 35 to 38 (notifiable incidents)
- Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): s 39 (information, training and instruction), s 48 (remote or isolated work), ss 55A to 55D (psychosocial risks), s 60 (hazardous manual tasks), Schedule 19 (dictionary)
- Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): s 30 (primary duty of care)
- Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): s 12 (managing electrical risks), ss 137 and 138 (office work and specified electrical equipment)
- Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice 2022 (Qld)
- Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021 (Qld)
- This document is general information for Queensland workplaces and is not legal advice
What You Get
- An editable Microsoft Word document (5 pages), A4 portrait
- Business details and document control typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
- Purpose, scope and a policy statement with an approval sign-off
- Definitions, and responsibilities for each role
- A step-by-step procedure that says who does what
- Records, training, monitoring and review, related documents and a revision history
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.
How to use it
From download to site in three steps
Buy and download
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Make it yours
Open it in Microsoft Word or Excel. Add your logo, business details, site and job information, and adjust it to how the work is done.
Brief your crew
Talk it through with the workers doing the job, have them sign on, and keep it on site. Review it whenever the job or conditions change.
What format is it?
Microsoft Word (registers are Excel). Edit it in Word or Excel, or free in Word and Excel for the web, and add your own logo and business details.
How do I get it after I pay?
Your download buttons appear as soon as checkout finishes, and the links are emailed to you. You can re-download from your account at any time.
Is it compliant with Queensland law?
It's written around Queensland's Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Regulation 2011. Tailor it to your site, consult your workers and review it whenever conditions change; no template can guarantee compliance on its own.
What if it isn't right for my job?
If it doesn't match its description or has a fault, we'll fix it, and if we can't, we'll refund you (or give you store credit if you'd prefer). Check the sample pages first, as we don't refund a change of mind.
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