Joinery and Cabinet Making WHS Manual

This is the joinery and cabinet making edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for workshops that make kitchens, vanities, wardrobes, doors and joinery and then install them in homes and commercial premises, so you only need one of the two. It follows the work from the machines to the finishing room to the delivery and the installation, and points to the SWMS, 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 joinery and cabinet making 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 Joinery and Cabinet Making WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Whether a SWMS is required: the workshop is not construction work and site installation is
• Licences: forklift, vehicle loading crane, dogging and general construction induction
• Woodworking machine guarding, lockout, blade changes and kickback
• Wood dust and MDF: the exposure standard, extraction, air monitoring and respirators
• Dust fires, spray finishing and the booth, isocyanates, adhesives and edge banding
• Engineered stone ban, stone and porcelain benchtops, and silica when drilling masonry
• Asbestos and lead in old homes, and manual handling of sheets, benchtops and glass
• Noise, nail guns, ladders and the electrical licensing boundary
• Emergency planning, first aid and incident notification
• Psychosocial health, injury management and return to work
• A list of the joinery SWMS, checklists and registers in our range, with when to use each
• 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 joinery and cabinet making 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), the meaning of electrical equipment and electrical work (ss 14 and 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, 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 51 to 53 and 355), noise (ss 56 to 59), manual tasks (s 60), confined spaces (ss 62 to 77), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and sch 3), plant (chapter 5 and sch 5), construction work (chapter 6, including ss 289 to 293, 297 to 303, 306C, 306D, 306K and 316), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7 and schedules 10, 11 and 14), lead (part 7.2), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica and engineered stone (chapter 8A, ss 529A to 529G), 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 13 and sch 2), unsafe electrical equipment (s 17), safety switches (s 136), electrical equipment in construction work (s 140), and notifying serious electrical incidents (s 292)
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (ss 5 and 7)
• 18 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 480 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.