WHS Management Plans

1. WHS Management Plans

2. What is it? • A WHS management plan sets out the arrangements to manage work health and safety on a construction project. • The intention of a WHS management plan is to ensure the risks associated with a complex construction project are managed, as there are usually many contractors and subcontractors involved and circumstances can change quickly from day to day.

3. What is it? • The WHS management plan must be in writing. • It should be easily understood by workers (including contractors and subcontractors). • It may not be necessary to communicate the entire WHS management plan to all workers, however, they must be made aware of the parts that are applicable to the work they are carrying out.

4. What is it? • An WHSMP must be prepared before the first soil is turned and should be subjected to an ongoing review as the project evolves. • Many components are Generic. • At the planning stage the principal contractor must review their safety management systems to suit the proposed works.

5. Legal Requirements?

6. What is a Principle Contractor?

7. Why Have it?

8. What is a Construction Project?

9. What is Construction Work?

10. Legal Meaning of Construction Work

11. Legal Meaning of Construction Work

12. What Construction Work Is Not

13. In English • You will need a WHS Management plan on a construction project > $250 000

14. WHS Management Plan Requirements

15. Using the Supplied Guide

16. Address • Expected Duration • Site Ammonites • Hazards Identified

20. Induction Training • Risk Management • Hazard Identification • Control of Hazards • Maintenance of Controls • Dissemination of WHS Information • Managing of Employees & Subbies • Review of SWMS

24. Internal with employees • External Methods • With Subbies • Neighbours

26. Identify When, How • Identify Forms by Annexure • SWMS • When Needed • By Whom • Site Specific Hazards

28. Documentation Required • Workers Comp Certificate of Competency • SWMS • Identify High Risk • Monitoring their Risk Assessment

30. Person to be notified • Evacuation Route • Assembly Point • Documentation Requirements • On Site First Aid • Who & Where

33. Audit & Review • Check for Compliance • Document Control

35. Documents to Assist You

37. WHS Safety Management Plans • The level of detail required for a WHS management plan will depend on • Complexity of the Workplace • The number of persons on site • and the risks involved in the work.

38. WHS Management Plan must Include • the names, • positions and health and safety responsibilities of all persons at the workplace whose positions or roles involve specific health and safety responsibilities in connection with the construction project

39. Example

40. WHS Management Plan must Include • the names, • positions and health and safety responsibilities of all persons at the workplace whose positions or roles involve specific health and safety responsibilities in connection with the construction project • the arrangements in place in relation to compliance with their duties under the WHS Act and Regulations

42. WHS Management Plan must Include • the arrangements in place for managing any work health and safety incidents that occur • any site-specific health and safety rules and the arrangements for ensuring that all • persons at the workplace are informed of these rules, and • the arrangements to collect and assess, monitor and review the SWMS

43. May Contain • details of the person commissioning the construction work, for example their name, ABN (if available) and address • details of the principal contractor • details of the construction project, for example address of the workplace, anticipated • start and end date and a brief description of the type of construction work that the WHS management plan will cover

44. May Contain • details on how contractors and subcontractors will be managed and monitored, outlining • how the principal contractor intends to implement and ensure compliance with the WHS management plan • such as checking on the performance of contractors and • how non-compliance will be handled • details on how the risks associated with falls, falling objects and any high risk construction work that will take place on a construction project will be managed.

45. May Contain

46. People with WHS Responsibilities • Persons at the workplace whose positions or roles involve specific health and safety responsibilities must be identified in the WHS management plan.

47. People with WHS Responsibilities • Persons at the workplace whose positions or roles involve specific health and safety responsibilities must be identified in the WHS management plan. • WHS managers, first aid officers and project managers. • Their responsibilities should be briefly described.

48. Arrangements for Consultation • Management Meetings • holding pre-commencement WHS meetings with all contractors and subcontractors • scheduling regular contractor/subcontractor WHS meetings • holding toolbox WHS meetings • establishing a construction project WHS committee • distributing a regular WHS newsletter. • Off Site communication.

49. Arrangement for Managing Incidents

50. Arrangement for Managing Incidents • It should also outline the policy for near misses.