Painting and Decorating WHS Manual

This is the painting and decorating edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for painters and decorators, so you only need one of the two. It follows the work in the order a painting job runs, with the fall rules for ladders, trestles, scaffold, scissor lifts, swing stages and rope access, preparation and dust, spray painting and isocyanate coatings, lead paint, asbestos in old surfaces and silica, and it points to the painting SWMS, permits and checklists 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 painting and decorating 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.

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What Is Included In Our Painting and Decorating WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for owners, supervisors, leading hands and painters
• Which Queensland fall rule applies to repaints and new work, with ladder, trestle and edge protection requirements
• Scaffold, scissor lift, EWP, swing stage and rope access rules, with the licences that apply
• Spray painting: airless injection injuries, booths, exclusion zones and static
• Isocyanate and two-pack coatings, respirators and health monitoring
• Lead paint in older buildings and how to prepare surfaces without a lead process
• Asbestos in old surfaces, and silica dust from sanding and grinding
• Solvent storage, rags, confined spaces, overhead lines and switchboards
• Heat, UV, wind and noise, and rescue after a fall
• A table of 45 painting SWMS, policies, permits, checklists and registers, and when to use each
• Definitions and the legislation and approved codes that apply to painting
• 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 painting and decorating 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), 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), 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), codes of practice (ss 44 and 45), and electrical work licences (s 55)
• Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991 (Qld)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims and the employer’s injury report (ss 131 and 133), and rehabilitation and return to work (ss 226 to 232)
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) and Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld): environmental harm and waste, including asbestos and lead waste
• Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012 (Qld), which applies the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland): the chain of responsibility (ss 26A to 26H) and driver fatigue (chapter 13)
• Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) and Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998 (Qld): fitness for work and smoke-free places (chapter 13)
• 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), exposure standards and monitoring (ss 49 and 50), 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 Schedule 3), plant (chapter 5), construction work and the Queensland rules for falls, ladders, trestle platforms and edge protection (chapter 6, including ss 289 to 303, 306A to 306Q and 315A to 315M), hazardous chemicals and health monitoring (chapter 7, including Schedule 14), lead (chapter 7, part 7.2), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica (chapter 8A), and the dictionary (Schedule 19)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): the list of approved codes of practice
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead electric lines (ss 10 to 15 and Schedule 2), electrical equipment for construction work (s 140), and notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (s 292)
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (ss 5 and 7)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 (Qld): the criteria for appointing a return to work coordinator (s 149)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)
• 22 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (455 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.