• Worker safety on or near public roads national campaign 2011
• Scaffolding campaign 2009 - 2010
• Amenities
• Building the Education Revolution (BER)
• Safety plans and work method statements
  • Construction safety plans
  • Work method statements
• General health and safety issues
• Concrete slump project report
• Guidance for house builders
• Inductions
  • General construction induction training
  • Site-specific induction
• Housekeeping, equipment and common plant
  • Housekeeping
  • Equipment
  • Common plant
• Major hazards
  • Excavation and trenches
  • Work at heights
  • Ladders, trestles and scaffolding
  • Protection from falling objects
  • Demolition work and asbestos removal
• National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (NPARIH)
• What law applies
• What is construction work?
• WHSO, WHSR and committees
• Workplace health and safety taskforce

Construction Industry Codes of Practice

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Site-specific induction

Having measures in place at the workplace to ensure people are aware of the specific procedures and rules for the site will help minimise the risk of death, injury or illness.

A principal contractor must ensure a person has had a site-specific induction before that person starts construction work (other than housing construction work).

The principal contractor must ensure a person entering a part of the workplace where construction work is being done:

• has been given a site-specific induction, or
• is accompanied by the principal contractor or someone who has been given a site-specific induction.

The induction needs to address the contents of the construction safety plan.

The principal contractor must make a record of the people inducted and the date it was given. The record must be kept for the duration of the construction work.

Site-specific induction is not compulsory for workplaces where housing construction work is being carried out. It will be important for the contents of the principal contractor’s construction safety plan to be communicated effectively where site-specific induction is not given.

Refer to Part 17 of the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 2008 for specific requirements on general and site-specific inductions.