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Safe operation of cold storage facilities: a handbook for workplaces.

Type of monograph: Guide/Handbook

Summary

This handbook provides health and safety information specific to cold storage facilities to help employers, health and safety representatives and employees identify hazards and implement appropriate risk controls. It also provides advice for cold storage facility employers on how to ensure they comply with their duties and obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004. Extract from the table of contents: legal obligations; consultation; training and supervision; using these guidelines; building design and structure; workplace layout and facilities; traffic management; environmental conditions; manual handling; plant (machinery and equipment); emergency management; in the appendices: process chart for the design of a safe cold storage workplace; wind chill programme; operation of LPG forklift trucks in poorly ventilated places; long-term fruit storage in controlled atmosphere rooms; protective clothing for cold storage, a user's guide; anhydrous ammonia refrigerating systems. The handbook can be downloaded from: www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/resources/file/eb98e702573e27d/Cold%20Storage%20Handbook.pdf.

Details

  • Original title: Safe operation of cold storage facilities: a handbook for workplaces.
  • Record ID : 2008-2817
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Regulation, Environment
  • Publication: WorkSafe Victoria - Australia/Australia
  • Publication date: 2008/06
  • Source: Source: ed. 1; 68 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; phot.; tabl.; 6 append.

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