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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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Authority
Safe Work Australia
Jurisdiction
Australia
Legal status
Guidance
Rule type
Control Overlay
Standard ID
HGC-030

Governing formula

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

Control measures

Governing metric: Heat-risk assessment controls

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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