This information sheet has been prepared to provide details on wire balustrades and how to build them in accordance with the BCA.
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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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This information sheet provides guidance on how to find out whether asbestos-containing material (ACM) is present in a building or structure and the basic matters required to be determined prior to undertaking any asbestos removal work, including removal work that is allowed to be undertaken without a licence.
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On 30 January 2012, a new national law governing the creation, enforcement and priority of security interests in personal property, like leases over motor vehicles commenced.
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This information sheet provides details of the proposed changes to the Building Code of Australia (BCA) in 2012 in respect to Volume 2 – Housing Provisions. The information is based on the pre-publication draft released in late 2011.
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