Safety improvements raising the bar
10 May 2019
An international construction contractor headquartered in Sydney has completed $400,000 of work health and safety measures as part of an enforceable undertaking entered into with SafeWork NSW.
Following an incident where a worker sustained serious injury from being hit by a steel beam, Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd (formerly Brookfield Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd) agreed to undertake significant business safety improvements that would also benefit their industry and the wider community.
Headlining Multiplex’s achievements is their development of the Practical guide to the safe erection of steel structures, the principles of which have since been adopted as part of the Australian standard for structural steel fabrication and erection (AS/NZS 5131:2016). The guide was developed in consultation with the Australian Steel Institute, engineers and the construction workforce to bridge the gap between documented procedures and workplace practices.
Multiplex has also spent more than $100,000 on the evaluation and distribution of the guide across its organisation and the wider steel erection industry through the Australian Steel Association and the Australian Contractors Association. A training video summarising the detailed processes contained in the guide was also produced to help deliver safety awareness training for all workers and contractors in the steel erection industry.
Since the incident in January 2013, Multiplex has also spent over $50,000 on rectifications, which included developing a tool to conduct audits on structural steel erection work and updating their steel erection checklist.
Benefits to the community from the completion of the undertakings to SafeWork NSW include the funding of graduate scholarships at Wollongong and Newcastle University for work health and safety students.
Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd continues to promote the use of the guide to improve safety practices to benefit both the industry and wider community.
Read more about enforceable undertakings, http://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/law-and-policy/enforcement/enforceable-undertakings.
Practical guide to the safe erection of steel structures, http://www.scacompliance.com.au...Practical_Guide_to_Planning_the_Safe_Erection_of_Steel_Structures.pdf
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Source: NSW Government - www.safework.nsw.gov.au
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http://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/law-and-policy/enforcement/enforceable-undertakings
https://infostore.saiglobal.com/en-au/standards/as-nzs-5131-2016-1890912
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