Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities, An Australian and New Zealand Joint Compliance Project.

Fall hazards are the construction industry's main cause of death from traumatic injuries. They are also its second largest cause of non- fatal injuries to construction workers.

During May 2004, 134 inspectors from Australia's eight state and territory workplace safety authorities, and from New Zealand's Occupational Safety and Health Service, conducted a joint compliance campaign on falls prevention in the construction industry.

Between them, the nine participating workplace safety authorities committed to a minimum of 920 project visits to housing and small-scale commercial construction sites. This target was exceeded, with a total of 1,347 project visits being conducted.

Inspectors examined how falls hazards were being managed on site and, where necessary, they took appropriate enforcement action to bring about compliance with OHS legislation.

The Falls Prevention in Construction project was a pioneering initiative. It marked the first time a coordinated construction safety compliance campaign has ever been mounted across Australia, and the first time a joint Australian and New Zealand construction safety exercise has ever occurred.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - Introduction, background, preparation and implementation pdf file [size: 798KB ]
PART 2 - Findings, objectives achieved, recommendations and acknowledgements pdf file [size: 828KB ]
PART 3 - Attachments pdf file [size: 1.38MB ]

Australia
  Workplace Health & Safety, Queensland
  NT WorkSafe
  Workplace Services, South Australia
  WorkCover New South Wales
  ACT WorkCover
  WorkSafe Western Australia
  Workplace Standards Tasmania
  WorkSafe Victoria
New Zealand
  OSH, Department of Labour