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This document provides information on healthcare laws, regulations, and workplace safety in the construction industry. It discusses the organizational structure of a construction company, specific laws and regulations, codes of practice, issues faced by employees, and actions for legal compliance. It also covers the roles of managers, supervisors, and hazard inspectors, as well as the implementation and presentation of a WHS system.

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Question 1
The construction Company, ABC deals with the process of constructing infrastructures and
buildings. The organizational structure of the mentioned company is hierarchical. It includes the
boards of directors, general managers, audit committee, executive vice managers, CFO, Vice
General managers and employees. The major responsibilities of the organization include
planning, design, and financing until the project is ready for use. The basic need of the
organization is to prevent any kinds of WHS issues that are frequency being faced by its
employees.
Question 2
Each state and nation has specific laws and regulations that govern the building and construction
industry. These laws and regulations for the construction company are following:
 Health and Safety Act 1974.
 Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 and the Contractors
Debts Act 1997 Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (1998) Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998
 The Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010 Work at Height Regulations 2005 Preventing Falls in Housing Construction Code of Practice (2012)
Question 3

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This Code of Practice on construction work is an approved code of practice under section 274 of
the Work Health and Safety Act. The relevant model codes of practise for the mentioned
organization are as follows:
 Manual handling
 Safety guards facilitations (Bong et al., 2015)
 Regular maintenance of the instrument used in the workplace as well as cites
 Demolition work
 Managing the risk of fall at Workplace
 Managing Noise as well as prevention of hearing loss at work
 Excavation as well as demolition work
 Preventing falls in the housing construction
 Hazardous manual tasks
 Safe Design of Structures
 Managing the Work Environment and Facilities
 How to Manage and Control Asbestos in the Workplace
 How to Safely Remove Asbestos.
Question 4
1. Adequacy of facilities for employees:
According to 60 percent of the employees, they lack of clean sanitation system in the
workplace. Especially the washroom allocated for the usage of male employees is highly
unhygienic. The employees also complained for lack of site canteen and offloading facilities
(Lingard et al., 2015).

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2. Issues with work environment
The work place environment is found be pretty work friendly. Effective relation exists between
the employees and the supervisors.
3. Existing arrangements for consulting
The employees lack existing arrangement for consulting.
4. Issues with machinery, equipment or materials
When it comes to issues with machinery, equipments and materials, the employees face such
issues rarely during working in the site. Staffs have been appointed in order to ensure regular
maintanance of the equipments.
5. Incidents or accidents which have occurred
As per record, 30 fall experiences in 3 years, 12 of which had resulted in severe injury and death
of 3 employees has taken place.
6. Known or identified issues with training.
The organization lacks appropriate policies for monitoring the training process. The schedule of
the on job training session often gets affected due to unscheduled responsibilities.
7. Provisions for security emergency procedures in place
The security emergency procedure needs to be more efficient to prevent any kinds of accidents in
future.
Question 5

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Actions that must be taken for legal compliance: Communication with the legal authority.
accident and incidents incl. reporting requirements and provisions: Hazard inspection audit and
hazard identification reporting system needs to be introduced
Employer responsibilities to provide a safe workplace : Providing training, facilities as well as
maintain transparency in the work process
Employee responsibilities: Abiding by code of conducts, reporting hazards as soon as possible
Requirement to consult designated times for consultation and acceptable consultation
mechanisms: To create bond with the third party health and safety consultants
Requirements for the use of work health and safety representatives and committees, and their
roles and responsibilities: Examining the documents as well as decision that are made during the
meeting.
Training requirements for each policy and procedure you have developed and detail how you
will ensure training can be effectively facilitated – this needs to include a training plan outline.:
Survey of the employees, interview of the employees, direct surveillance
hazard identification and risk assessment provisions: higher hazard reporting system
Designated times for hazard identification and categories of hazards that must be identified: 3
months (Furci & Sunindijo, 2018)
Acceptable mechanisms for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control: visual
inspection, verbal reporting as well as safety measures

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Requirements for record keeping and acceptable record keeping mechanisms: Date , time ,
impact, likeliness and involved person.
Question 6
Type of
hazard
Outcomes Likeliness Impact Severity Mitigation
procedure
Contingen
cy
procedure
Tripping Physical
damage
Moderate
(3)
High (4) 12 1. First aid in
mild
damage
2. In severe
damage
taken to the
hospital
Cover
cables to
walkways
(Demirkes
e &
Arditi,
2015).
Falling
from
height
Physical
damage ,
death
High (4) High (4) 16 1. In severe
damage
taken to the
hospital and
fall
prevention
(Demirkese
& Arditi,
2015).
Installing
railings
and
recruiting
guards to
ensure the
prevention
.
Stuck by Physical Very low Moderate 4 1. First aid in Guarding

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damage (1) (3) mild
damage
2.In severe damage
taken to the hospital
equipment
to reduce
stuck by
Falling
object
Physical
damage
Very high
(4)
High (4) 16 1. First aid in
mild
damage
2. In severe
damage
taken to the
hospital
Keeping
falling
object
away and
protection
from
falling
object
Question 7
Manager or supervisor:
The role of the supervisor is to protect the health safety and welfare of the
employees and other stakeholders who are involved in the construction company (Guo Yiu &
González, 2016). The duty is under health and safety law to assess the risk of the workplace and
take initiates accordingly with the collaboration of hazard inspector (Ward et al., 2016).
Hazard inspector:
The role of a hazard inspector is to present in hazardous place for the purpose of
assessing hazard. His role is to assess the risk of hazard, a degree of the severity of the hazard

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and inquired employees about the hazard (Misiurek & Misiurek, 2017). Lastly, collaborate with
the manager by reporting and mitigating the hazard.
Policy makers:
The role of the policymakers is to collaborate with the hazard inspector and supervisor to
assess the risk and amend the policies of this construction company which ensure health and
safety of each employee (Guo Yiu & González, 2016).

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Question 8
Master register layout
Policy name Incident of
breaching
Edition(no of
revision)
Time
duration
Supervision
Health and Safety Act 1974
Building and Construction
Industry Security of
Payment Act 1999 and
the Contractors Debts Act
1997
Lifting Operations and
Lifting Equipment
Regulations (1998)
Management of Health and
Safety at Work Regulations
1999

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Provision and Use of Work
Equipment Regulations
(PUWER) 1998
The Notification of
Conventional Tower
Cranes Regulations 2010
Work at Height
Regulations 2005
Preventing Falls in
Housing Construction Cod
e of Practice (2012)
The master register layout has been presented as per which, it will be necessary to
register any breaching of the legislations of policies in the register so that amendment in the
process leading to those breaching could be carried out. Further, the supervisors of the

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construction organization will be asked to entry each incident of breaching and corrective actions
taken against in in the register. Besides this the number of revisions taken for each legislation or
policy and their duration of implementation will also be included in the master register.
Question 9
To understand the compliance of each worker to the WHS policy would require the strict
vigilance of the supervisors so that they can ensure the application of provisions to maintain the
compliance to the WHS policies prepared for the benefit of the workers. Further, after providing
them with the training regarding the process, they will be asked to acknowledge their compliance
through signing the compliance register. There could be several sections which require further
clarification or modification to successfully implement them in the work force. Hence, feedback
and consultation will be implemented in the system (Lingard et al., 2015). Further to assess the
understanding of workers about the WHS policies an evaluation process will be conducted by
conducting a survey so that the level of compliance could be understood.
Question 10
Funding and cost estimation is an important section of implementation of new policies
and legislations to the process and hence, in this construction based organization, implementation
of WHS would require a specific amount of cost. The costs are as follows:
Aspect Physical cost HR cost
Equipment required within
the organization
AUD 1,00,000 AUD 5000
Personal protective AUD 20,000 AUD 2000

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equipment
staff attendance for
consultation
AUD 20,000 AUD 3000
risk assessment AUD 30,000 AUD 4000
training identified for the
staff
AUD 10,000 AUD 2000
Question 11
Presentation of WHS system to the employees and colleagues of the organization is the
final and most important part of preparation and implementation of WHS. In this section, the
complete policies and legislations prepared for the health and safety of employees will be
conveyed to them in a lucid and easy manner so that they can comply with the processes without
any resistance (Lingard et al., 2015). All the employees will be provided with presentations
regarding the WHS system and its legislative aspects and they will be asked to take part in the
evaluation process so that their feedback and suggestion could be processed rapidly and
modifications in the process could also be achieved (Chow et al., 2016). Further, this feedback
form will be circulated to each smaller and higher posts employees and while registering their
feedback their identity would be kept secured. Further while implementation, for primary months
of the process, rigidity would be maintained so that each employee could understand the
importance of these policies and WHS legislations (Lingard et al., 2015).

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