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Welcome to eSAFE Construction first edition
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) is expanding its engagement role to provide even more information to stakeholders on its activities in the building and construction sector. In particular, we’ll be highlighting what we are doing in terms of audits, safety campaigns, information on how to cut the toll of work-related fatalities and injuries, and tips to help make your workplaces safer.
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Building and construction industry bucks safety trend
While workers compensation claims rates are stable across nearly all Queensland industries, building and construction statistics have been on the rise (see figure 1), although encouraging figures for 2009–10 point to a 13.3 per cent fall in industry claim lodgements.
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Scaffolding campaign now underway
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is auditing construction sites as part of a Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) campaign to boost workplace safety law compliance. The campaign is part of a coordinated national enforcement program focusing on compliance with AS 1576 - Scaffolding (including data collection and analysis).
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Upcoming HWSA Worker Safety on or Near Public Roads Campaign
WHSQ has committed to the 2010 HWSA Worker Safety on or Near Public Roads Campaign. The project, being coordinated by WorkCover NSW, will see inspectors auditing workplaces across the country to focus on compliance issues, with an analysis report due at the conclusion of the campaign.
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Upcoming WHSQ engagement strategies
To complement the WHSQ audit program over the next year, inspectors will be gathering more in-depth information when carrying out audits relevant to falls from heights, housekeeping and working around mobile plant.
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