Purchasing

Requirements

Health & Safety: Purchasing requirements

Guidance

Safety Bulletin 2019/03: Pre-purchase assessment

Australian Standards commonly used in purchasing

A health and safety prepurchase checklist is essential to ensure that, before you decide to purchase plant, equipment or chemicals, you have considered:

• The potential risks to the health and safety of people or the environment associated with the item purchased
• how you will eliminate or mitigate these risks; and
• what new or additional hazards will be present in your workplace or systems of work as a result of the purchase