Equipment and Party Hire WHS Manual

This is the equipment and party hire edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for tool and plant hire, party hire and event hire businesses, so you only need one of the two. It follows an item from the pre-hire inspection and handover through delivery, set-up, use, collection, the return inspection and wash-down, and it settles the rules that bind a hire business: the supplier duties for hired plant, test and tag for hired electrical equipment, inflatable devices and rides with their log books, marquees and wind, LP gas, and delivery vehicles and trailers. It points to the safe work method statements, policies, checklists and registers in our range that match. 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 72 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 31 for equipment and party hire 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 Equipment and Party Hire WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for owners, depot supervisors, delivery crews, attendants, technicians and counter staff
• Supplier duties for hired plant: what goes out with every hire and the signed handover
• Hired plant maintenance, inspection and records under the WHS Regulation
• Test and tag for hired electrical equipment: before each hire or a safety switch that cannot be defeated, and every 6 months
• Inflatable devices and amusement rides: registration, operators, daily checks, log books and inspections
• Marquees, stages and wind, pegs and ballast, underground services and powerlines
• LP gas heaters and cylinders: what hire staff may and may not do, and carrying cylinders
• Delivery vehicles, trailers and towing, load restraint, driver licence classes and heavy vehicle fatigue
• Yard forklifts, wash-down chemicals, silica dust from hired tools and the return inspection
• Emergency plan, first aid, incident notification and return to work
• Forms, registers and 45 matching documents from our range
• Part B: the full text of 72 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 31 for equipment and party hire 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) and plant (s 21), the meaning of supply (s 6), duties of persons conducting businesses or undertakings that supply plant, substances or structures (s 25), codes of practice (ss 26A, 274 and 275), duties of officers (s 27), duties of workers and others (ss 28 and 29), offences and penalties (ss 31 to 34D), notifiable incidents (ss 35 to 39), consultation (ss 46 to 49), health and safety representatives and committees (pt 5), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), discriminatory conduct (ss 104 to 106), inspectors and notices, entry by WHS entry permit holders (ss 117 to 121), and no levy on workers (s 273)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12) and the dictionary meanings of extra low voltage and low voltage
• Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (Qld): gas work and gas work licences (ss 725 and 726)
• Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012 (Qld), which applies the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland): the meaning of heavy vehicle (s 6), fatigue-regulated heavy vehicle (s 7), the primary duty of each party in the chain of responsibility (s 26C), compliance with loading requirements (s 111) and driving a heavy vehicle impaired by fatigue or unfit to drive (s 228)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims and the employer’s injury report (ss 131 and 133), rehabilitation and return to work (ss 226 to 232), and the protection of injured workers (ss 232A to 232G)
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) and Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld)
• 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), noise (ss 56 to 59), hazardous manual tasks (ss 60 and 61), falls (ss 78 to 80), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and sch 3), plant (chapter 5, including supply of plant ss 198 to 200, amusement devices ss 238 to 242A and registration under sch 5), construction work (chapter 6), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7), 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
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead and underground electric lines (ss 10 to 15 and schedule 2), amusement work (ss 126 to 130), requirements for hiring out electrical equipment (s 142) and notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (s 292)
• Petroleum and Gas (Safety) Regulation 2018 (Qld): gas devices (type A) (schedule 1) and the carriage of gas cylinders in an enclosed vehicle (ss 140 to 144)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Vehicle Standards and Safety) Regulation 2021 (Qld): loads on light vehicles (s 44)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Driver Licensing) Regulation 2021 (Qld): driver licence classes (schedule 1)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Road Rules) Regulation 2009 (Qld), the Queensland Road Rules
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 (Qld): the criteria for appointing a return to work coordinator (s 149)
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (s 7)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)
• 17 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 490 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 (72 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 72 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.