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Safe Work Australia Heat Guide — Heat Stress Control Measures

Safe Work Australia national heat guide used as a general WHS risk-management overlay rather than a numeric work/rest table.

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Governing metric
Heat-risk assessment controls
Authority
Safe Work Australia
Jurisdiction
Australia
Legal status
Guidance
Published
2017 (unverified)
Rule type
Control Overlay
Standard ID
HGC-030

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This rule has no numeric trigger the calculator evaluates — it states duties and control measures rather than a threshold a reading can be checked against. Its measures are listed below.

Governing formula

No standalone formula is published for this standard; see programmable logic and parameters below.

Control measures

Programmable logic

Surfaces the national guidance to assess heat risk, consult workers, provide water, rest, shade or cooling, plan first aid, and adjust tasks, pace, timing, and PPE. It does not claim a single binding national temperature threshold.

This standard does not take WBGT as a required input, and publishes no standalone numeric parameter table here; see the governing metric and programmable logic above, and the primary source below.

Inputs

Required inputs: none

Optional inputs: airTempC, wbgtC, outdoor, workload

Sources

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