Slips, Trips & Falls
"Don't Fall For This"
Poster - Preventing slips, trips, falls & collisions (PDF,
317K)
Stay on your feet
Falls
Prevention Kit for Departmental staff in Schools which includes a range of
materials to assist in managing hazards and risks associated with injuries
arising from slips, trips and falls.
Safety in Sport Poster (PDF, 340K)
Compliance Guidelines -
Prevention of Falls
(PDF, 2.Mb)
Related pages
Links to other sites
Occupational
Health and Safety (Prevention of Falls) Regulations 2003 (http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/Domino/Web_Notes/LDMS/PubLawToday.nsf/b12e276826f7c27fca256de50022686b/18bc913a6945039aca256e68007c9467?OpenDocument)
The
Falls Regulations come into operation on 31 March 2004 and are applicable to
all Victorian workplaces where there is a chance of someone falling more than
2 metres.
Prevention
of Falls
(http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/WorkSafe/Home/Safety+and+Prevention/Health+And+Safety+Topics/Falls/?&a=Falls&p=Populaar)
Information
from the Victorian WorkCover Authority.
Code
of Practice for the Prevention of Falls at Workplaces (2004) (http://www.worksafe.wa.gov.au/newsite/worksafe/content/codes/codeslip0001.html)
Fall
prevention Code of Practice (WA) provides useful information on risk
assessment and control measures for developing a falls prevention strategy.
Preventing Slips Trips and
Falls at Work
(http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/slipindx.htm)
UK
Health and Safety Executive Hazards at Work leaflet identifying key risks at
work.
Monash University Accident Research
Centre (MUARC)
(http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/)
The
Accident Research Centre is a leading road safety and injury prevention
research organisation in Australia. The Victorian
Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) (http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/VISU/)
is a long term project of the Monash University Accident Research Centre
(MUARC). The quarterly publication Hazard
(http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/VISU/hazard/index.html)
is produced by VISU to disseminate information about injuries and their
prevention.
Sports
Injury Data
(http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/VISU/hazard/haz09.pdf)
(PDF, 360K)
HAZARD (Edition No. 9) features Sports Injuries in
Children - the Five Most Commonly Presented Sports. See also Edition
No. 8 (http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/VISU/hazard/haz08.pdf)
(PDF, 170K) for Sport Related Injuries - An Overview.
Sport &
Recreation Injury Fact Sheets
(http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/projects/sport.html)
MUARC
'Fact Sheets' provide facts on sporting and recreation injuries and safety
tips for the prevention of injuries.
