Safety

Inductions & Qualifications

We use a web and app-based platform to ensure the whole team is fully inducted and qualified for the planned works. With alerts and reminders when refreshers are due as well as a qualification matrix to help us handpick to best combination of qualified tradespeople for the project in hand.

100% of our onsite staff hold a valid Work Safely at Heights Certificate and 50% of our office-based staff do too! While the office staff aren’t necessarily getting up on roofs or near live edges like our onsite crew, we recognise the importance of as many people as possible being aware of the risk and hierarchy of control to be considered when working at height; running from elimination to substitution before isolation, engineering and administration to manage or control the risk.

While the ‘Work Safely at Heights’ Unit of Competency (RIIWHS204D) does not have an expiry date, the Working at Heights Association (WAHA) and other industry bodies recommend that this training is refreshed every 2 years. We like to be above industry standard in all possible ways, so we prefer to refresh our onsite personnel training annually to ensure we are always up to date with any changes.

More than half of our entire staff are first aid trained, including all CPR certificates being refreshed every 12 months. This means it’s not uncommon to have a whole team onsite with every person being appropriately trained to deal with first aid situations if they should occur. We always have at least one first aider onsite, prepared with a first aid kit that is regularly audited to ensure it is suitably stocked.

SWMS & Toolboxes

‘Safety’ refers to mitigating risk of injury or damage to our personnel, yourselves as our valued clients, the public and the property you entrust us with. We do this, by not only using competent and qualified staff but also carefully considering the most appropriate and safest methodology to be used, which gets transcribed in a ‘safe work method statement’; more commonly referred to as SWMS.

The teams conduct a toolbox talk at the beginning of every shift, to ensure any additional factors that may affect works is acknowledged, discussed in detailed and controlled by whichever means are necessary.

Soon we will have these documents prepared and completed electronically through the use of QR codes, with the app-based WHS management software we use.

Some clients request a site-specific safety management plan, which we are happy to provide, to give further details on how we will ensure no unnecessary risks are taken.

Audits & Inspections

Our Project Managers and WHS representatives conduct systematic inspections during the course of a project to ensure the quality and safety expectations are being upheld – and they always are!

Servicing and testing

We regularly service all of our equipment including our sucker units, winches and lifting equipment; all of which are also routinely inspected for each and every use to ensure we maintain a ‘zero drop’ company.

We have a purpose built register that alerts us ahead of services being due, allowing us plenty of time to arrange and confirm compliance for use.

The same register also assists us in arranging testing and tagging to take place prior to expiry; so you can rest assured, all tools and equipment used on your project are fit for purpose.