Why cash payments on a building job cause trouble
A client who offers cash looks like an easy win, but cash leaves no trail, and on a building job the trail is what protects the builder when something goes wrong.
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Compliance
Articles and news about Compliance for Australian builders.
Why cash payments on a building job cause trouble
A client who offers cash looks like an easy win, but cash leaves no trail, and on a building job the trail is what protects the builder when something goes wrong.
11 min read
Trading names, ABNs and licence names on your paperwork
A trading name is not a legal entity. The licence name, the ABN and the trading name each answer a different question, and they must agree on every document you issue.
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Workers compensation wages for builders: declarations and premium audits
The premium is only as accurate as the wages behind it. Here is how declarations are built, what an audit checks and the records that let a builder answer quickly when the insurer asks.
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Employee or contractor: classifying workers on a building site
A signed contract and an ABN do not settle whether a worker is a contractor. The working relationship on site does, and this article sets out the practical test and the paperwork habits that hold up.
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Waste management plans and skip bin costs for builders
Waste is one of the few line items a builder controls almost entirely from the site office. Plan the sorting, the bin placement and the haul before the first delivery, and the cost stops drifting.
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Workers compensation and insurance after a site injury: what it costs the business
Regulator notification is one obligation after a site injury. The insurance and premium consequences are a separate set of problems, and they arrive later, on a renewal notice you did not expect.
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Setting up a residential site properly before you start
Site establishment is the work you do before the first trade arrives — and it sets the cost and programme of everything that follows. Get the physical setup and the services wrong and you spend the rest of the job working around it.
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Material substitution on site: checking equivalence before you swap
Swapping a product on site is a variation to a documented design, not a site convenience. Equivalence has to be assessed against the function the material performs and recorded before the work is covered up.
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Keeping safety records that defend your business
Safety records are the only proof that a control existed, a toolbox talk happened or an inspection was done. Keep them so they can be found, read and relied on years later.
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A WHS management plan sized for small builders
A WHS management plan is not a document you buy and file. It is the written version of how you control risk on a particular job, and it only works if it is short enough that you and your subbies actually use it.
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Emergency and evacuation planning for house sites: the site plan and the crew briefing
An emergency plan that lives in a folder is not a plan. For a house site, it is a marked-up site plan and a briefing that every subbie on the job has actually heard.
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Developer obligations on NSW residential projects: what builders need to know
On a NSW residential project the developer carries statutory duties that flow straight into your contract, your programme and your handover. Read the developer’s side of the framework before you price the job.
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