Flooring Installation WHS Manual

This is the flooring installation edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for businesses that lay carpet, vinyl, laminate and timber floors, sand and coat floors, and grind and polish concrete, so you only need one of the two. It follows a job from the site visit and the asbestos check through removal, preparation, laying, sanding and coating to handover, and points to the SWMS, permits, 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 67 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 26 for flooring installation 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 Flooring Installation WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles, including who is the principal contractor on a job
• Safe work method statements for flooring work and when each one is needed
• Asbestos in old floor tiles, sheet vinyl, underlay and adhesives, and the stop-work rule
• Silica from grinding and polishing concrete and screeds, and the engineered stone ban
• Solvent adhesives, vapour and ignition sources, and oily rags
• Epoxy, polyurethane and isocyanates, and health monitoring
• Timber floor sanding, wood dust, noise and fire
• Kneeling, carpet stretching and manual handling of rolls, boxes and machines
• Subfloors and confined spaces, electrical leads, RCDs and floor heating
• Working in occupied homes, shops, schools, care facilities and centres
• Incident notification, emergency response and return to work, a table of record-keeping periods cited to the law, definitions and the laws and codes that apply
• Part B: the full text of 67 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 26 for flooring installation 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), more than one duty holder (s 16), duties about plant (s 21), 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), health and safety representatives and committees (pt 5), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), discriminatory conduct (ss 104 to 106) and no levy on workers (s 273)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12), what electrical work is (s 18), codes of practice (ss 44 and 45) and electrical work licences (ss 55 and 56)
• 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)
• Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991 (Qld): licensing of building work. The licence classes that cover our trade are floor finishing and covering, which takes in preparing, sanding and coating timber floors, cork flooring, mosaic and block parquetry, pre-finished manufactured and engineered timber flooring, non-structural strip timber flooring, and preparing, applying and finishing epoxy and seamless floor coverings, and wall and floor tiling, which takes in cutting and fixing tile to floors and waterproofing for wall and floor tiling
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): the general environmental duty (s 319) and notification of serious or material environmental harm (ss 320B to 320D)
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld)
• Building Act 1975 (Qld)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998 (Qld)
• Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld)
• 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), airborne contaminants and hazardous atmospheres (ss 49 to 53), falling objects (ss 54 and 55), noise (ss 56 to 59), hazardous 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), construction work (chapter 6), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica (chapter 8A), psychosocial hazards (ss 55A to 55H) 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): electrical equipment and safety switches in our workshop (ss 133 to 136) and on construction sites (s 140), and notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (s 292)
• 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)
• 19 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 460 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 (67 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 67 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.