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Class 1a Building Assessment Process

   

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Running Head: BUILDING ASSESSMENT PROCESS 1 1Building Assessment Process 1Name:Institution:Course:
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BUILDING ASSESSMENT PROCESS 1 2Question 1: Identify the relevant building, planning, occupational health and safety requirements and environmental legislative requirements and explain how they interact and how these would be applied to the construction of a class 1a dwelling. Building code of Australia (BCA) defines class 1a dwelling as one or more structures with a single dwelling for private residential dwellings. Building code of Australia aims at ensuring buildings is build to a standard for a specific use.Occupational health and safety is a unit dealing with safety, health and workers welfare. It is important in workplace to help in minimizing injuries or death (Robson et.al, 2007). Some of the requirements in this unit include health and safety management which devices methods to reducecases of injury and illness at work place. These methods differ depending on place and type of work done. In order for this system to work, the manager of a company should train its workers on the need to maintain health and safety.Another health and safety requirement is hazard assessment and control; this forms a basis of occupational health and safety because it involves careful analysis of what could cause danger to workers at the work place hence preventing injuries and/or illness. For this case of construction, the manager should assess the work site in case it has any health hazards and thereafter come up with findings which can then be shared with the workers. The hazards could be physical, chemical, psychosocial or biological.Work site inspections is also a health and safety measure, work place should be inspected alwaysby supervisor and workers. It involves checking the workplace to identify hazards and then eliminating them if possible.
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BUILDING ASSESSMENT PROCESS 1 3Incident management and investigation is also another form of health and safety requirement. This involves finding out the cause if an accident in the work place incase a worker has been injured and finding good measures to prevent similar cases from happening.To ensure good health and safety, Workers competency and training should also be taken into consideration. Workers should be competent in what they do and should have good training on how to operate machineries and know all safety measures. In a case where they are exposed to danger, the manger should find a way of eliminating the dangers to avoid risking worker’s life (Lingard & Rowlinson, 2005).Emergency response and first aid, this is another requirement of health and safety. The work place should have an emergency response where in case of a problem or fire, the workers have an exit site to evade danger. In case of danger there should be first aid kits to offer first help before proceeding to health centre in case the injury is serious.When planning to erect a building, environmental legislative requirements are also taken into consideration and they include; environmental protection act which defines the level of contamination on a land to be used in erecting a building, it includes an idea that there can be a possibility of harm caused by contamination and therefore thorough investigations should be done(Fergusson & Langford,2006).Environmental impact Assessment is a very crucial tool in assessing the impact of development projects and finding out ways to reduce future impacts. This is expensive and time consuming. Hazardous waste regulation which states that waste which is hazardous should be separated and removed for disposal at the correct place.
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