Workplace health and safety taskforce

The Building and Construction Industry (Workplace Health and Safety Taskforce 1999) was established by the then Minister for Employment Training and Industrial Relations.

The terms of the taskforce were to:

research and develop better health and safety data collection methods from which more informed intervention strategies may be initiated
make recommendations that will minimise exposure to risk
introduce a package of measures that will improve compliance levels of all parties to meet their health and safety obligations.

The final report of the taskforce was released on 30 August 2000.

The report focused on the key hazard areas that contributed to major injury and loss within the industry.

The report made 78 recommendations including:

the need for clearer and more enforceable rules
broad-based industry education on health and safety
the introduction of more on-the-spot fines for high risk hazards
a tracking system to better monitor poor safety performance.

Building and Construction Industry (Workplace Health and Safety) ¿ Final Report (PDF, 597 KB).