WorkPlace Safety Awards 2014
If you have come up with a way to make your workplace safer you could be eligible for recognition at your state’s Safe Work Awards. Safe Work Awards are now open across Australia to recognise both businesses and individuals that have demonstrated improvement and innovation in work health and safety (WHS). Tell your story for…
Read MoreTop 8 safety documents for contractors in construction
Contractors in construction are required to have safety documents that comply with the Work Health & Safety (WHS) Regulations, as of 1 January 2014. These documents are sometimes referred to as a “Safety-Pack”, and must readily accessible while working on site, along with your First Aid Kit. If a subcontractor don’t have the correct safety…
Read MoreHow to review your contractors’ SWMS
If you engage contractors that perform high risk construction work, then you need to collect and review their Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS), to avoid on-the-spot fines of $432 (for individual) and $2160 (for company). Here’s what you should look for: The front page of the SWMS contains: ABN and business name of the contractor…
Read MoreSafety Checklist for Contractors in Construction
[mt_lineheader size=”2″ align=”left”] Safety Planning [/mt_lineheader] Prepare a folder to store your Safety documents and keep the folder in your vehicle ready for Inspectors and emergencies. Your safety folder should include: Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) for any high risk work. Safety Data Sheets (SDS’s) for any Hazardous chemicals you use. A copy of all…
Read MoreHow to avoid the Junk Mail folder
[mt_lineheader size=”3″ align=”left”]Setup a SPF record [/mt_lineheader] To reduce the likely hood of your emails ending up in “Junk mail”, you will need to get your IT support person (or Internet service provider) to setup a Sender Policy Framework record (SPF record). The “SPF record” identifies the “SiteBook mail server” as being a “permitted sender”…
Read MoreHow to improve Your email delivery rate
Emails sent from SiteBook on your behalf, generally do not end up in the recipients “Junk Mail”, because we go to great lengths to make sure we abide by the email delivery rules & standards. However if you change the “Email From” in a template from the default “mail@sitebook.com.au” to your email address, then that…
Read MoreHow to send emails “from” your email address
You can setup SiteBook to so that emails appear to be sent from your email address @ your company domain name. The benefits are that you will receive any out-of-office replies, and any notification of undeliverable emails, (usually due to an incorrect email address) so you can fix and resend the email. By default, emails…
Read MoreWHS Regulations – What can I be fined for?
A large number of building contractors are unaware of the on-the-spot- fines for breaches of work health & safety laws that took effect on 1st January 2014. The maximum penalty for exposing workers to risk of death or serious injury is now $600,000 for individual or $3million for body corporate and or 5 Years…
Read MoreWhat Insurances should my Trades have?
When engaging a subcontractor it is best practice to ensure that they have all the relevant insurances to reduce the risk of you being out-of-pocket for their actions. It’s all about risk, and how much risk you are prepared to take, especially when your best trades don’t have insurances, and you just need to get…
Read MoreContractor Business Name Check
We have just added a new feature to automatically check the registered business name of your subcontractors , based on the ABN they supplied. Recent changes to Tax reporting requirements mean that builders must to supply all subcontractor payments to the tax office, including the registered business name of the payee ( not the trading name! ) SiteBook…
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