Waste and Recycling WHS Manual

This is the waste and recycling edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for waste collection, skip and hook lift work, transfer stations, material recovery and resource recovery yards, so you only need one of the two. It follows the work from the collection run to the tip and the sorting line, and points to the SWMS, plans, 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 78 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 37 for waste and recycling 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 Waste and Recycling WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for waste collectors, operators, sorters, weighbridge staff and the chain of responsibility for heavy vehicles
• Rear, side and front lift trucks, skip and hook lift trucks, compactors, balers, conveyors, shredders and crushers
• Isolation and lock-out, guarding and working under raised bodies, tailgates and hoppers
• Reversing, tipping, powered mobile plant and pedestrians
• Asbestos in loads, silica dust from crushing and screening, engineered stone, sharps and biological hazards
• Lithium batteries, gas cylinders, stockpile and truck fires
• Confined spaces: hoppers, bunkers, tanks and pits
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Act points, delivery information, illegal dumping and environmental management
• Incident notification, emergency response, first aid and return to work
• Inspections, audits and a table of record-keeping periods cited to the law
• Definitions, a table of related documents and the legislation and codes that apply
• Part B: the full text of 78 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 37 for waste and recycling 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), duties about plant and its design (ss 21 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), 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)
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld): the waste levy and delivery information for a waste disposal site, a resource recovery and transfer facility and a recycling entity (ss 52 to 54), littering (s 103) and illegal dumping (s 104)
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): named by title, including environmental authorities for waste activities and regulated waste (chapter 18)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12), overhead electric lines (s 30), codes of practice (ss 44 and 45) and electrical work licences (s 55)
• 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)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79), and the licences needed to drive a heavy vehicle on a road
• Fire Services Act 1990 (Qld): named by title (chapter 15)
• 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), psychosocial risks (ss 55A to 55H), 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), including guarding, controls, maintenance and powered mobile plant (ss 205 to 215) and industrial lift trucks (s 218), registration of plant designs and plant (pt 5.3 and sch 5), construction work (chapter 6), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica and engineered stone (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 electric lines and the exclusion zones (ss 10 to 15 and sch 2), electrical equipment (pt 6), energised electrical work (ss 195 to 204), notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (s 292) and the dictionary (sch 10)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld): named by title, including the obligations of generators, transporters and receivers of regulated waste (chapter 18)
• 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)
• 16 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 520 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 (78 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 78 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.