Library Guides: Workplace Health and Safety (WHS): Recommended resources

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

Workplace health and safety law in Australia by Foster, N.
Publication Date: 2016
Oxford handbook of occupational Health by Smedley, J. et al.
Publication Date: 2013
The Wiley Blackwell handbook of the psychology of occupational safety and workplace health by Clarke, S. et al.
Publication Date: 2015

Quick links

ebook collections

ProQuest eBook Central This link opens in a new window
A huge and constantly growing multidisciplinary collection of eBooks. This collection is the Library’s largest collection of eBooks, and covers many of the subjects taught at Charles Sturt.
There are sometimes restrictions on the use of these eBooks. With high-demand items where there is a limit on concurrent users, we recommend that you find and download what you need and then close off the book/browser window to free up the licence for someone else. For a demonstration of how to do this, please see the Library’s short eBooks etiquette video. There are usually limitations on how much you can download and copy, but these should reset after 24 hours.

Some books are available for full download. If you wish to download a ProQuest eBook Central eBook to your computer, you need the free software Adobe Digital Editions. To download to a device, you need a free app: Bluefire Reader or Aldiko Book Reader (for android only).

For help with using this collection, see the ProQuest Ebook Central page in the Library’s eBooks guide. It includes a link to ProQuest’s own guide on the collection, and has embedded videos from ProQuest on the online reader and on downloads.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
A database of journals covering international management research, and eBooks covering business, management, economics, and social sciences.
All content is published by Emerald Publishing.

Specific business and management topics include: accounting; human resource management; industrial and organisational psychology leadership; library and information science; and marketing.There is also coverage of engineering, applied science, and technology.

The social sciences eBooks cover a range of sociology, education, politics, and psychology topics.

If you go to the Browse tab, you can browse the books and journals, with filters for journal or book title, subject, and publication type.

If you go to Advanced Search, you can filter your search by type of content, date, and, importantly, access type. The access type filter has options for:
• All content
• Only open access
• Only content I have access to.

Charles Sturt has full-text access to all of the journal content and some of the eBook content. Case studies are not included in our subscription. Items available in full-text are marked with a green tick.

See more tips on finding and using eBooks.

Library databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
A ProQuest database that includes thousands of scholarly and trade journals, plus other related content, with most in full-text, covering business, management, and finance.
Specific topics covered include business, economic conditions, accounting, finance, corporate strategies, management theory and techniques, marketing, business trends, product development and information, and industry conditions.

Included in the database is the Wall Street Journal, with full-text access back to 1984.

The database also includes non-periodical content such as EIU ViewsWire - covering business and economic events from across the globe - and ProQuest Business Dissertations - access to over 18,000 full-text doctoral dissertations and masters theses.

Database coverage is from 1971 to current.

ABI/INFORM Collection actually consists of three subsidiary databases: ABI/INFORM Dateline; ABI/INFORM Global; and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Once you are in the ProQuest platform, you can change to any other ProQuest database by clicking on the hamburger menu at the top left of screen, then on Change databases. You can search all ProQuest databases individually or in any combination. For a broader collection of databases in the business area, try ProQuest's subject package of Business Databases.
Australian Public Affairs (APAFT) This link opens in a new window
An Informit Australian database of citations and article summaries from more than 560 journals, with most also available in full-text. It covers current affairs, economics, health, humanities, law, literature, politics, and social sciences. The link here will take you to the Informit platform with APAFT selected. See more ... below.
Key titles include:
* Australian Aboriginal Studies;
* Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;
* Australian Health Review;
* Australian Historical Studies;
* Australian Journal of Communication
* Australian Journal of Social Issues;
* Griffith Review
* Journal of Australian Political Economy and Oceania;
* Journal of Industrial Relations;
* Keeping Good Companies;
* Metro;
* Quadrant.

Index records are from 1978 to present, with full-text material available from 1994 to present.

Your searching from this link will be within APAFT only. You can change the database(s) you are searching using the Change Databases button. Unless you have changed databases, you will continue to search in APAFT. When you have run a search, your results list will include, at the top, which database(s) you have searched in.

You can use Basic Search or Advanced Search. Advanced Search offers more options for searching, and more limiters. When you have run a search, there are further options for filtering your results. For searching help, there is a useful set of Search Tips at the bottom of the Advanced Search Screen.
EBSCOhost (Business) This link opens in a new window
A package of five EBSCOhost databases, all of which include Business-related material and a considerable amount of full-text content. Includes the important business database, Business Source Complete.
The databases are:

* Academic Search Complete;
* Business Source Complete;
* Health Business Fulltext Elite;
* Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection;
* SocINDEX with Full Text.

All EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in any combination.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
A database of journals covering international management research, and eBooks covering business, management, economics, and social sciences.
All content is published by Emerald Publishing.

Specific business and management topics include: accounting; human resource management; industrial and organisational psychology leadership; library and information science; and marketing.There is also coverage of engineering, applied science, and technology.

The social sciences eBooks cover a range of sociology, education, politics, and psychology topics.

If you go to the Browse tab, you can browse the books and journals, with filters for journal or book title, subject, and publication type.

If you go to Advanced Search, you can filter your search by type of content, date, and, importantly, access type. The access type filter has options for:
• All content
• Only open access
• Only content I have access to.

Charles Sturt has full-text access to all of the journal content and some of the eBook content. Case studies are not included in our subscription. Items available in full-text are marked with a green tick.
Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Multi-subject database of journal articles, with most available in full-text.
Taylor & Francis Online is a one-stop site hosting the full text of hundreds of eJournals published by a range of publishers including Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, Haworth Press, and Multilingual Matters.

From the home page you can search using Basic or Advanced Search, or browse for journals by subject category. Most of the subjects taught at Charles Sturt University are represented in the list of 30 disciplines. Advanced Search offers a range of searching options and limiters, and a Citation Search.

One of the benefits of Taylor & Francis Online to users is that it closes the embargo gap for a large number of eJournals that are otherwise available via EBSCOhost - that is, it provides the full-text of recent issues of journals which are not available (for the most recent 12 months) in EBSCOhost.

While most articles are available in full, a standard search might return results that are citation-only. In your results list, full-text availability is indicated by a white tick in a green triangle at the bottom right of the brief record. If you get a result where there is no full-text available, click on the Find link to search for the full item in other Library-subscribed resources.

Results lists include a tick-box refiner for Only show content I have full access to.

See all Business, Management, Marketing and WHS databases.

Need some help with understanding how to use Library databases? See our Database Help Guide.

Standards and legal resources

Standards Online This link opens in a new window
This database provides full-text access to all Australian Standards, plus abstracts and contents information for other international standards such as ISO, IEC, EN, ETSI, NSAI, and JSA.
You can view standards online, print, or save to PDF. Online viewing is limited to 3 users at a time.
You can search the collection by title, number, keyword, scope, or publication dates. You can limit your search to Australian Standards only, or search all the Standards databases.

You can view online, print, or save as a PDF. Online viewing is limited to 3 users at a time.

You will need to have a PDF reader on your device in order to download and read Standards offline. When you click on the Download button, you will see instructions for downloading a standard. We suggest that you follow these instructions and then ensuring that you open the standard from the file folder and NOT in your browser.

Downloaded files will be watermarked with your email address, there are limited print options and restrictions on sharing and copy/pasting. More information can be found on the DRM Explained page and in the FAQs.
Lexis+ This link opens in a new window
Lexis+ contains full-text access to Australian primary and secondary legal source materials including Australian cases, legislation, journal articles, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and commentaries.
Key titles include Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary, CaseBase case citator, LawNow legislation citator and the Australian Law Reports (ALRs).
Westlaw AU This link opens in a new window
A database of Australian publications and research tools from Thomson Reuters, covering Australian law and legislation.
Westlaw AU (previously known as Legal Online, and, before that, Lawbook Online) provides resources in a new interface which is different from the previous Legal Online interface. Most of the content is available in full-text.

The Westlaw AU interface makes subscribed content available for searching or browsing. For Charles Sturt users, content is available in three Content Types: Cases, Legislation & Commentaries, and Journals. You can do a Basic Search across all content, or you can choose to search across specific material. If you choose to search across one of the three Content Types, you get a content-specific Advanced Search option.

On the Home page, you can choose to browse by Content Type, Practice Area, Product Title, or Jurisdiction. In addition to that, if you choose one of the three Content Types you can then browse that content by Product Title, Practice Area, or Jurisdiction.

Search and Browse are integrated, so if and when you browse into specific content your searching is also automatically restricted to that content.
CCH iKnowConnect This link opens in a new window
Online access to cases, legislation, commentary, articles & news, and practical tools across a range of legal practice areas, as well as Tax Monitor and a series of Master Guides for family law, tax and financial planning.
Topic coverage includes: family law, property law, company law, torts, tax, accounting, human resources & industrial relations, occupational health & safety, financial planning, business management, superannuation and more.
This database is an upgrade to the previous CCH IntelliConnect. The new platform has a fresh look and feel, making it easier to discover related content, news, commentary, and practice tools.
All IntelliConnect content will still be available but may be found under a different title or practice area.
We recommend using the Advanced Search and filter options to narrow your search results. Or browse content using the Practice Area drop-downs in the left-hand side menu.

Government websites and professional organisations

Australian Institute of Health & Safety
Australia’s professional body for health & safety professionals.
business.gov.au
business.gov.au is a government website for the Australian business community.
Comcare
Comcare is the national authority for work health and safety, and workers’ compensation
Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia (Inc.)
The professional association of ergonomists and human factor specialists in Australia.
Safe Work Australia
Australian government statutory body established in 2008 to develop national policy relating to WHS and workers’ compensation.
SafeWork NSW
The NSW Government workplace health and safety regulator.