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This building and construction sector plan has been developed in consultation with industry and aligns with the SafeWork NSW Health and Safety Roadmap 2022 to drive down fatality, injury and illness rates in the NSW building and construction industry.

This checklist can be used by principal contractors or scaffolders to conduct a basic inspection to look for common scaffold deficiencies and hazards.

Mould at the workplace can be a serious health and safety hazard that could be putting your workers at risk.

The purpose of this document is to provide practical management tools to principal contractors, scaffolders, engineers, and other parties responsible for the provision and safe use of scaffolding.

Amends AS/NZS 1170.2:2011.

Amends AS/NZS 1170.2:2011.

Provides requirements for determining wind actions for use in structural design; includes revised sections on combination factors and cantilevered roofs and new provisions for torsion and windborne debris testing; provides for the treatment of doors as openings, and increased local pressure factors; wind speeds and direction factors are given for regions in Australia and New Zealand; factors are provided to cover the environment around the structure, the geometry of the structure and the dynamic interaction of the structure with the wind.

The 2011 edition of AS/NZS 1170.2 is amended as follows.

Provides workers on low-voltage electrical installations with: (a) the principles of safe working practices; and (b) recommended procedures for safe working practices.