• Accredited auditors for government building and construction projects
• Control of major risks on civil construction sites
• 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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Scaffolding campaign 2009 - 2010

The campaign aims to increase the level of scaffold compliance in the construction industry through a coordinated national compliance campaign, aligned to the Australian Standard AS1576 - Scaffolding.

The campaign has been developed in response to an increase in scaffolding incidents in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria that have resulted in fatalities and serious injuries.

The initiative will involve all nationwide regulatory bodies auditing all scaffold types above two (2) metres.

The campaign comprises of the following:

Phase 1: Compliance and audit inspections (completed in 2009)

The following checklists were used by WHSQ inspectors to gather relevant compliance information as part of the inspections.

• Scaffolding checklist (General) (PDF, 71 kB)
• Suspended scaffolding checklist (PDF, 71 kB)

Phase 2: Education (May-June 2010)

The education phase will promote key outcomes from the compliance and audit inspections undertaken in phase 1.

Several fact sheets and a presentation have been developed to provide information to the industry on the:

• number of completed audits
• number of notices issues
• comparison between national and Queensland figures

Download the presentation (PDF, 929 kB)

Information sessions

Information sessions were held across the state from June until the end of July, as part of the education phase for the Heads of Work Safe Authorities (HWSA) scaffolding campaign.

Phase 3: Compliance and audit inspections (2010)

This phase will involve follow-up audits to assess if the level of compliance has changed in comparison with the phase 1 findings.