Safety documents for offices and professional services in QueenslandAn office is a workplace, and the business running it has the same primary duty as any other to look after the health and safety of its workers and of other people at the workplace (ss 17 and 19 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)). For desk-based teams that mostly means workstation set-up, emergency procedures, fire equipment, psychosocial risks, and clear rules for people who work from home.Rules that come up in officesPsychosocial risks: the business must manage psychosocial risks, which includes the risk of sexual harassment and of sex or gender-based harassment (s 55C of the WHS Regulation).Emergency plan: the business must prepare an emergency plan for the workplace that covers emergency procedures, evacuation, notifying emergency services, medical treatment, testing of the procedures, and training for workers (s 43).Popular office templatesOffice and Professional Services WHS ManualOffice Safety Policy and ProcedureOffice Workstation Ergonomic Assessment ChecklistWorking from Home Safety Policy and ProcedureFire Warden and Emergency Control RegisterOffice Relocation SWMSThe Office and Professional Services WHS Management System puts the manual, policies, forms, registers and checklists for an office in one download, in three sizes. Every template is an editable Word or Excel file you can brand with your logo, and you download it straight after checkout. Once filled in for your job, the documents help you meet your duties. This is general information, not legal advice.