The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 12-hazard risk register written for builders, head contractors and developers acting as principal contractor on construction projects, procedures, registers and an emergency plan. Editable Word, written by a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
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The policy and plan govern the system; the register, procedures and registers are written for this industry from the hazard content we already hold for it.
✓The site register covers 7 areas of site work: site establishment, amenities, exclusion zones and daily housekeeping; material deliveries, laydown and site material handling; multi-trade coordination and daily pre-start meetings; temporary works and temporary electrical supply; minor demolition and strip-out; overhead loads and work above other trades; plant and pedestrian separation and site traffic.
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A WHS management plan is the document a council tender panel, a principal contractor or an insurer asks for before your SWMS: the policy, the responsibilities, the way hazards are found and controlled, and the registers that prove the system runs. A generic plan names none of the work builders, head contractors and developers acting as principal contractor on construction projects actually do.
The hazard register starts from our General Construction SWMS: 12 site-wide hazards with their consequence and priority and 14 controls; your subcontractors' trade SWMS sit underneath it.
The plan is authored to order for your business by a Certified Industrial Hygienist and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as an editable Word download.
WHS management plan for builders, head contractors and developers acting as principal contractor on construction projects in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (12 hazards), safe work procedures, induction, inspection, incident and emergency registers, and a tender and prequalification cover sheet. Editable Word.
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A sample of the 12 hazards in the construction register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Crush or run-over injury to workers on foot from reversing or slewing plant.
Fatal or permanent injury from falls greater than 2 metres; triggers a high risk construction work category and mandatory fall-management controls under s. 78.
Head, shoulder, or foot injury to workers below; fatal impact potential when tools or materials fall more than one storey.
Dropped objects, welding arc exposure, and dust contamination of work below; consultation and coordination duties under s. 46 of the WHS Act breached.
Electrocution or shock from damaged leads, missing RCDs, or out-of-test temporary supply.
Site fire from grinding sparks, oxy-cutting, or welding; loss of life and major property damage.
PC exposed to breach of s. 312 if a subcontractor starts HRCW before the PC has taken all reasonable steps to obtain its SWMS.
Third-party injury and associated PCBU liability.
If your business commissions a construction project, it is the principal contractor, unless it engages another business as principal contractor and authorises it to manage or control the workplace; that business then holds the role (s 293). Section 309 requires the principal contractor to prepare a written WHS management plan before work on the project starts. The plan must name the people whose roles carry specific health and safety responsibilities for the project, with their positions and responsibilities; set out how the businesses on site consult, co-operate and co-ordinate; explain how incidents are managed; state the site rules and how everyone is told them; and describe how SWMS are collected, assessed, monitored and reviewed.
The hazard register is built for shared ground. Reversing and slewing plant moves among workers on foot. Edges, voids and formwork decks expose crews to falls, and objects dropped from above strike workers below. Trades working above one another carry welding arc and dust onto the work beneath. Temporary electrical supply, hot work near combustibles, subcontractors starting high risk construction work without a SWMS, and children or other members of the public getting onto the site round out the leading hazards.
A generic office or workshop plan assumes one business running one floor. It has no arrangements for other businesses' crews, no SWMS register, no site rules briefed at the gate, and nothing on deliveries and laydown, temporary works, overhead loads or traffic near the site, where a builder's risk actually sits.
Clients and council panels usually open at the signed WHS policy, then check that each of the five s 309(2) contents is answered for this project specifically: the named roles, the co-ordination arrangements with pre-start records behind them, the incident registers, and the site rules with the induction that delivers them.
An auditor turns next to the SWMS register: whether each copy was obtained before the high risk construction work began (ss 301 and 312), and whether each SWMS was checked against the plan it must take into account (s 299(3)(a)(ii)). Then come subcontractor prequalification and insurance, high risk work licence checks (s 81 and Schedule 3), general construction induction records (ss 316–317), the emergency plan and drill record, and the site arrangements for signage, security, materials, waste, traffic and essential services (ss 298, 308 and 315). The cover sheet maps a panel's checklist to the plan.
The first gap is the SWMS. A subcontractor arrives early and starts work at the edge of a formwork deck, where a person could fall more than 2 metres, before anyone has asked for its SWMS. With no collection arrangement or register, your supervisor has no hold point, and you cannot show that all reasonable steps were taken to obtain the copy first (s 312).
The second is the briefing. You must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that each person who is to carry out construction work is made aware of the plan's content, and of their right to inspect it, before starting (s 310). A late trade is waved through the gate, and nobody can say what that crew was told about exclusion zones, overhead loads or hot work.
The third is a plan that stops moving. The project moves to fit-out and the laydown shifts, but the plan still describes the first month. Section 311 requires it to be reviewed and, as necessary, revised so it remains up to date, with workers made aware of revisions, and s 313 requires a copy kept readily accessible and available for inspection. If a notifiable incident occurs on the project, the plan and every revised version must be kept for at least 2 years after it (s 313), because the version in force that day is the one the regulator is likely to ask for. A kept plan supports your due diligence; an outdated folder in the site office does not.
If you operate, maintain or contract to these assets in NSW, this pack is written for your duties.
The Codes of Practice and Australian Standards these documents are measured against, and the legislation behind them.
Send the enquiry with your business name and the tender or client you are preparing for. You will have an itemised quote within one business day and a plan written for your work, not a template with the name changed.
Authored to order for your business and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as a download.
A WHS management plan supports your due diligence; holding one is not compliance in itself. You must run the system it describes — consult your workers, put the controls in place, keep the registers current and review the plan after any incident or change. Exposure monitoring and health monitoring, where the register calls for them, are work for an occupational hygienist and a registered medical practitioner.