CCF Annual Report 2016/17 Financial Year | Page 30

2016/17 Annual Report
Foundations for Safety Committee including
Traffic Management Industry Forum & AS 1742.3
Working Group
Facilitated by WorkSafe, CCF participated in the
Foundations for Safety Committee aimed at reducing the
construction industry’s incidence of deaths, injuries and
diseases to improve the level of compliance with OHS
requirements on Victorian construction sites.
Our Achievements
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Reviewed use of Temporary Barriers with
Worksafe Victoria for OHS standards and update of
VicRoads guidelines to practitioners on the use of
temporary safety barriers at worksites.
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Provided direct input into a series of Safe
Worker and Traffic (SWAT) campaigns, a joint initiative
by WorkSafe’s Construction Program, VicRoads and
industry to promote safe traffic management at roadside
worksites throughout Victoria. As part of the SWAT
campaign, WorkSafe inspectors are visiting construction
sites to ensure that traffic related hazards and risks are
adequately controlled where employees (including
contractors and their employees), pedestrians and road
traffic interact.
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Contributed to Standards Australia update of the
AS 1742.3 regulations. This included review and comments
on the new Standards prior to release for public comment
in 3Q 2017. Austroads guidelines will be developed to
provide further information on how to safely implement
traffic management at worksites. It is expected that the
Austroads guidelines will be published at the same time as
the updated AS 1742.3 targeted for release in December
2017.
Anushan Jayaratne, John Kilgour, John Miller, Robert
Garrard (CCF), Robert Chilton and Robert Tabor (Lantra).
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Provided input into the National Training and
Accreditation Scheme being established by Austroads for
the installation and maintenance of road safety barriers.
CCF made representations to LANTRA, a UK based
company, on the potential implementation of their scheme
and associated training through Civil Train. An extensive
financial analysis and Business Case was developed and
submitted to the CCF Victoria Board to assess this training
opportunity.
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Secured temporary letter from VicRoads for
students to allow training on “live sites” under direct
supervision for RIIWHS302D course - Implement Traffic
Management Plan.
Noise & Confined Space, Prevention of Falls,
Plant & High Risk and Construction Reference
Committees
CCF participated in these four Worksafe Stakeholder
Reference Groups (SRG’s) with focus over the last 12
months on OH&S Regulatory Reform in regards to the
Confined Spaces Compliance Code, Hazardous Manual
Handling Compliance Code, and Plant Compliance.
The Codes provide information for employers on how
to identify hazards and control risks associated with
confined spaces, hazardous manual handling including
the management of any risk of musculoskeletal disorder
(MSD); and plant used in the workplace.
Our Achievements
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CCF made a submission to the OHS Regulation
review seeking specifically changes relating to Part 3.6,
High Risk Work, Schedule 3 Part 1 – Dogging.
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