The work health and safety laws provide that duties to ensure health and safety must be achieved, ‘so far as is reasonably practicable’. You will need to consider what can be done and whether it is reasonable to do all that is possible.
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The new work health and safety laws (WHS laws) impose duties on ‘upstream’ parties such as manufacturers, suppliers, designers and importers of plant, structures and substances, to ensure that products are without risks to the health and safety of people at or near the workplace.
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The work health and safety laws require a person in control of a business or undertaking (PCBU) to notify Workcover of certain injuries.
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Officers must exercise ‘due diligence’ under the new work health and safety laws. If you are an officer you will need to be proactive in making sure that the business is meeting its work, health and safety obligations.
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In NSW employers have always been required to engage in consultation with their employees to enable those employees to contribute to the making of decisions affecting their health, safety and welfare at work.
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If you are the principal contractor for a construction project ($250 000 or more), you must prepare a written work health and safety management plan (WHS management plan) for the workplace before work on the project commences.
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If you are a designer who conducts a business or undertaking that designs plant, a substance or structure (product) that is to be used or could reasonably be expected to be used, as, or at, a workplace, you have specific duties under the work health and safety laws (WHS laws).
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If you are a person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace (PCBU), the work health and safety laws require you to manage the risks to health and safety associated with a fall appropriately.
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The work health and safety laws set out duties in relation to workers carrying out remote or isolated work. These new laws will come into effect in NSW from 1 January 2013.
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A new package of work health and safety laws (WHS Package) will come into effect from 1 January 2012, subject to some transitional arrangements. The WHS Package consists of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act 2011), Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (WHS Regulation 2011) and new national codes of practice.
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A Code of Practice is a practical guide to achieving the standard of health, safety and welfare as required by Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws for a particular area of work. A Guidance Note however provides more detailed information on the requirements of statutes, regulations, standards and codes of practice relating to particular tasks.
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An updated version of AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations — Construction and demolition sites, has been released.
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A compliance campaign in relation to prefabricated scaffolding will be rolled out nationally from August. The following checklist may serve as useful guidance for an audit of your scaffolding systems.
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Scaffolds are a common means of providing a safe work platform for working at height provided a few basic safety rules are followed. This includes making sure that workers are provided with the necessary information, instruction, training and supervision to enable them to safely erect, alter, dismantle or use scaffolds and keeping scaffolds and their means of access in a safe condition.
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WorkCover NSW, in conjunction with HIA and industry representatives, has published some practical guidance for scaffolders to safely erect, alter and dismantle prefabricated steel modular scaffolding where this information is not available from the manufacturer or supplier and the scaffold is of basic configuration.
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