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Conducted on
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Prepared by
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Location
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Project:
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Client:
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Contractor:
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Site Condition:
Site Practices
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Is the site access point clearly indicated with an approved TTM in place?
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Are site access controls in place to prevent unauthorised entry to site?
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Are fencing arrangements appropriately installed across the site?
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Is signage installed to the site indicating mandatory PPE and are personnel onsite wearing the mandatory PPE?
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Facilitates such as the lunch room, site sheds and toilets are suitable and are regularly cleaned?
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The site compound is suitable and is there adequate parking for construction personnel and designated parking for the client and site consultancy management team?
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Are materials on site being stored in a safe manner?
Site Systems
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Have any safety incidents occurred in the past months? If so sight documentary evidence of incident reporting and investigation process. Ideally corrective and preventative actions arising from incidents are being implemented onsite.
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Confirm the Principal Contractor's site management plan is onsite and is endorsed by management representative. Check when this was last reviewed and record date of review.
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Confirm the Principal Contractors Risk Assessment and associated controlling actions are onsite and endorsed by management representative. Check when this was last reviewed and record date of review.
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Are the Principal Contractor's policies displayed in the site office along with contact details for first aid, health and safety representatives and the emergency plan?
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Confirm the principal contractors induction process is in place, photograph induction register and conduct spot audit of employees signed into site attendance register in comparison to induction register. Record all findings and assign actions as required.
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Attend contractors tool box talks or similar and document site consultation process. Confirm that tool box talks being undertaken regularly and all site personnel are in attendance. Record all findings and assign actions as required?
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Have plant and machinery operators been appropriately assessed by the principal contractor? Document evidence of a competency, skills assessment register or similar process?
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Are procedures in place for the management of fuel and other chemicals onsite?
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Are procedures in place and documentary evidence available for the review and assessments of environmental controls across the site?
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Are procedures in place and documentary evidence available for the maintenance of environmental controls at regular intervals and or following a rain event?
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Are procedures in place and documentary evidence available for the management of risk associated with personnel working in close proximity to mobile plant? Consider SWMS and or training awareness of mobile plant or similar?
Subcontractor Management
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Are procedures in place and documentary evidence available for the review and approval by the Principal Contractor of their subcontractors SWMS and risk assessments?
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Is documentary evidence available demonstrating communication to subcontractors regarding changes in work conditions such as revised site access, amendments to working hours, site closures and upcoming risk works such as blasting?
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Are procedures in place and documentary evidence available for the monitoring of subcontractors on site compliant to their approved SWMS?
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Are procedures in place for the management of subcontractor non-conformance onsite?
Excavations and Protection
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Are open excavations protected during works onsite? Is bunting, fencing or similar being adopted? Consider an additional treatment for open excavations of greater than 1 working day.
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Are open excavations greater than a depth of 1.5m being managed in accordance with the code of practice for Excavation ie benching, battering, or shoring with designated ingress and egress points?
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Are geotechnical inspections occurring on any excavations greater than 1.5m in depth? If so provide details of inspections and outcomes.
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Where major concreting works (and associated formworks) are being undertaken such as large stormwater structures, GPT's and Reinforced Box Culverts is scaffolding installed to manage the risk of working at heights within deep excavation? Consider how personnel are working from scaffold during working activities, is access and material handling appropriate?
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If scaffolding is being used? Confirm scaffolding is installed by an appropriate ticket holder and SWMS are used for working at heights.
Emergency Preparedness
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Principal Contractor has trained first aid officer onsite and appropriate first aid facilities in plant and machinery, site vehicles and site sheds?
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Are procedures in place for site emergency situations and are these procedures displayed in a prominent position on the site and addressed within the site induction training?
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Are procedures in place for the testing of the emergency equipment such as fire extinguishers and evacuation alarms?
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Has the Principal Contractor undertaken a test of their emergency preparedness in the past 3 months? Consider an evacuation drill or similar.
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Are there any additional work health and safety elements of the project requiring comment or action? If so provide details and assign actions.
Site Environmental Controls
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Have any complaints , EPA attendance to site for non-conformance or environmental incidents occurred in the last month? If so sight documentary evidence of incident reporting and investigation process. Ideally corrective and preventative actions arising from incident are being implemented onsite.
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Do all works have necessary approvals in place, refer any specific DA conditions or CEMP requirements.
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Has the contractor ensured their works are within site boundaries and impact/damage to the adjoining vegetation is minimised?
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Are procedures in place to assign responsibility to site personnel for the inspection, testing and maintenance of environmental controls? Sight documentary evidence that the contractors personnel are undertaking these activities.
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Is amendment required to the stamped EPA pollution control drawings due to changes in the work amendment to site practices? If so detail observation and assign action to the contractor.
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As works are completed is topsoil being placed and stabilised with grassing or similar progressively?
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Does the earthworks strategy for the site considerer progressive stripping to minimise sediment runoff and dust generation?
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Any observation of impact to downstream waterways from fuel spills, improper sediment controls or improper waste management? IF so detail and photograph and assign and action.
