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NSW Work Health Safety Regulations

NSW Work Health Safety Regulations. Module: Construction Specific Requirements. Workbook p38. WHS Regulations Chapter 6 CONSTRUCTION WORK. CHANGES Definition of construction work Principal Contractor duties Construction induction Duties of designers of structures

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NSW Work Health Safety Regulations

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  1. NSWWork Health Safety Regulations Module: Construction Specific Requirements Workbook p38

  2. WHS Regulations Chapter 6CONSTRUCTION WORK CHANGES • Definition of construction work • Principal Contractor duties • Construction induction • Duties of designers of structures • Work near underground essential services • The following has been moved into the chapter on Plant & Structures • Overhead protective structures • Structural collapse • Safe lowering of materials Workbook p38

  3. Definition of Construction Work Construction work means “any work carried out in connection with the construction, alteration, conversion, fitting-out, commissioning, renovation, repair, maintenance, refurbishment, demolition, decommissioning or dismantling of a structure” Workbook p38

  4. Construction Work Includes activities connected with: Workbook p39

  5. Construction Work does NOT include: Workbook p39

  6. Activity 7HIGH RISK CONSTRUCTION WORK MAY INVOLVE: Workbook p40 & 41

  7. The PCBU that commissionsa construction project is the principal contractor Aconstruction project is a project that involves construction work where the cost of the construction work is $250 000 or more

  8. Duties of PCBUs Undertaking Construction Work Additional duties of PCBUs who have control or management of the workplace under the WHS Regulations

  9. Further Specific Duties of PCBU

  10. Safe Work Method Statements Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are required for ALL HIGH RISK CONSTRUCTION WORK and must be prepared before work commences. SWMS must: • Identifywork that is high risk construction work • Specify hazards andrisks associated with that work • Describe measures to control risks • Describe how the risk control measures are to be implemented, monitored and reviewed

  11. Safe Work Method StatementsCompliance • PCBU must give a copy to the Principal Contractor before work commences • PCBU must put in place arrangements to ensure SWMS is followed • If high risk construction work is not carried out in accordance with the SWMS, the work MUST be: • stopped immediately or as soon as safe to do so; • resumed in accordance with the statement

  12. Additional Duties of a Principal Contractor on a Construction Project

  13. Principal Contractor must manage risks associated with:

  14. Regulatory Duties of a Principal Contractor

  15. Person who commissions work MUST • Consult with the designer about how to ensure risks arising from the design during construction work are: • Eliminated, so far as is reasonably practicable, or • Minimised, so far as is reasonably practicable • Give the designer and the principal contractor information regarding hazards and risks

  16. Design Safety Report Must account for: • maintenance, • refurbishment, • demolition and • dismantling of a structure Must specify hazards that may create risks not only during initial building but to workers who undertake maintenance or demolition work in the future

  17. General Construction Induction PCBUs must ensure that: • general induction training is provided to relevant workers • workers have been trained before directing or allowing a worker to carry out construction work Workers must: • keep their general induction training card available for inspection

  18. Model Codes of Practice - Construction Managing Risks in Construction Work Excavation Work Preventing Falls in HousingConstruction Demolition Safe Design of Building and Structures

  19. Activity 8: Case study 1 • The contract value is less than $250k so the subcontractors job is not a construction project and the sub contractor does not have principal contractor duties • The sub contractor does not have to prepare a WHS plan but will have to work within the plan provided by the principal contractor • As the work is high risk construction work the sub contractor will need to prepare SWMS relevant to their specific tasks Workbook p42

  20. Activity 8: Case study 2 • The off site prefabrication work is not construction work • The dismantling of prefab buildings is construction work • For the dismantling work the PCBU would have additional duties such as managing the risks of construction work and preventing unauthorised access. Workbook p43

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