Transport and Logistics WHS Manual

This is the transport and logistics edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for road freight, courier, depot and warehouse businesses, so you only need one of the two. It follows the work in the order a load moves, from booking and scheduling through the dock, the road and the delivery, 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 76 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 35 for transport and logistics 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 Transport and Logistics WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for owners, schedulers, loading managers, supervisors and drivers
• Safe work procedures and SWMS: when the law requires a SWMS and what this manual requires instead
• Licences: forklift, order picker, reach stacker, vehicle loading crane and dogging
• Chain of responsibility for heavy vehicles, with the duty to the officers
• Driver fatigue, work and rest hours, fitness to drive and phones
• Mass, dimension and load restraint, tarping and falls from loads
• Loading docks, forklifts, pedestrians, reversing and warehouse racking
• Dangerous goods, fuel, batteries and warehouse chemicals
• Crash and breakdown response, emergency planning and first aid
• Psychosocial health, incident notification, injury management and return to work
• A list of the transport forms, registers and SWMS in our range, with when to use each
• Part B: the full text of 76 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 35 for transport and logistics 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 and plant (ss 20 and 21), designers, 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)
• Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012 (Qld), which applies the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) as a schedule: the chain of responsibility (ss 5, 26A to 26H), fatigue and work and rest hours (ss 223 to 264 and 293), mass, dimension and loading (ss 96, 102, 108, 110 and 111), unsafe vehicles and coupling (ss 60, 89 and 185), transport documentation and container weight declarations (ss 186 to 193), and the relationship with the WHS Act (s 18)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12), and codes of practice (ss 44 and 45)
• 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 spills, wash-down water and used oil
• 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 and fire (ss 49 to 53), falling objects (ss 54 and 55), noise (ss 56 to 59), psychosocial hazards (ss 55A to 55D), 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, ss 203 to 247 and Schedule 5), construction work (chapter 6, ss 289 to 316), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7 and Schedule 14), 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
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Dangerous Goods) Regulation 2018 (Qld): duties of consignors, packers, loaders, prime contractors and drivers, and instruction and training for dangerous goods tasks (s 20)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Vehicle Standards and Safety) Regulation 2021 (Qld): the load rule for vehicles that are not heavy vehicles (s 44)
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead electric lines (ss 10 to 15, Schedule 2), 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)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)
• 18 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 510 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 (76 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 76 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.