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Safety

Browse BIG's resources on safety in building and construction.


Resources

This training resource is designed to help you deliver short presentations covering a series of work health and safety topics.
This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who use ladders.
This toolbox talk can be delivered by construction site supervisors, and provides basic safety tips for workers who work on large prefabricated modular scaffolds.
Safety signs inform and warn you of hazards and risks in the workplace, tell you what to do in an emergency situation and show you how to protect yourself and work safely.
The Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA) requires all persons conducting a business or undertaking to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers and other persons are not put at risk from work carried out as part of the business or undertaking; this includes asbestos removal work, asbestos-related work and the risk of exposure to airborne asbestos.
Offers practical guidance for both businesses and workers on managing risks related to forklifts.
Most serious and fatal falls are from less than 4 metres.
Provides workers on low-voltage electrical installations with: (a) the principles of safe working practices; and (b) recommended procedures for safe working practices.
Specifies procedures for the safety inspection and testing of low voltage single phase and polyphase electrical equipment, connected to the electrical supply by a flexible cord or connecting device. It also include procedures for the safety inspection and testing of: Residual current devices (RCDs) except those within the scope of AS/NZS 3003 and NZS 6115; and Portable inverters that generate or produce low voltage.
Specifies the requirements for fire alarm monitoring systems between the monitored fire detection and alarm system and the fire dispatch centre and includes requirements for the monitoring equipment.