Safety leaders are key to setting the standards and guiding principles behind organisational culture and expectations around how work is conducted. As a leader in your business, you have a moral and a legal obligation to ensure that the right standards are being set for health and safety. Success is
Manual handling occurs in every workplace, and involves activities or tasks that require an individual to exert force through movements including lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying. Manual tasks are not always classified as “hazardous”, so what is the difference, and when does manual handling constitute a Hazardous Manual Task?
Do you, or your contractors undertake excavation works on your site? Excavation work includes the removal of soil or rock from a site to form an open face, hole, or cavity. This includes trenches, shafts, and tunnels. It is important that an employer or PCBU understands the various risks that
Inductions play a key role in ensuring that their employees, contractors, and site visitors are aware of, acknowledge, and understand key information related to an organisation’s operations and environment. Every time you attend a location there will be changes. Even small or subtle ones can alter conditions. Different types
Knight Frank Australia, the domestic division of the world’s largest privately-owned property consultancy, have partnered with Cm3 as their online contractor management system of choice. Across their portfolio of over 2,500 assets, the company manages over 10 million square metres of property and employs a significant number of contractors for
A Principal Contractor of a construction project is defined by Work Health & Safety (WHS) legislation. By default, a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) that commissions a construction project is the Principal Contractor. However, they may appoint another PCBU as a principal contractor at different stages of the
Cm3 is pleased to announce a partnership with the Waalitj Foundation. The foundation aims to lead the provision of education, employment and business opportunities for First Nations Peoples. Through their Waalitj Hub, the foundation assists the Indigenous business sector by supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people wanting to start,
