First aid kits, trained officers and emergency plans for NSW house sites
First aid on a house site is not just a kit in the shed. It is a kit, a trained person, a route out and a route in for an ambulance, all decided before the first trade starts.
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Articles and news about Compliance for Australian builders.
First aid kits, trained officers and emergency plans for NSW house sites
First aid on a house site is not just a kit in the shed. It is a kit, a trained person, a route out and a route in for an ambulance, all decided before the first trade starts.
12 min read
Principal contractor duties on NSW residential sites: WHS and coordination
On a residential site the principal contractor is not a title on a contract, it is a set of WHS duties that attach to whoever holds the role. Here is what those duties require in practice, and where the coordination usually breaks down.
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Recycled content building products: compliance and warranty risk on NSW sites
Recycled content changes nothing about a product’s legal obligations — but it often changes the evidence trail. Here is how to keep compliance and warranty cover intact.
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Home building compensation: when it is required on NSW residential work and when it is not
Home building compensation sits outside the claims process: it is a licensing condition on most residential work over the threshold. Getting the trigger wrong exposes you to penalties, a stop-work order and a contract the homeowner can walk away from.
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Renewing your NSW builder licence: conditions, variations and staying compliant
Renewal is not a repeat of your first application. It is a check that your licence still reflects the work you do, that any conditions on it still fit, and that you have kept up the CPD the scheme requires.
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What happens when a complaint is made against you in NSW
A complaint about defects and a complaint about your conduct can arrive from the same household and travel down two very different tracks. One is about fixing the work. The other is about whether you keep your licence.
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Advertising your building business: what NSW licensing law requires you to say
Most builders learn about advertising obligations only after a complaint. NSW licensing law treats what you publish about your business as a representation you are accountable for.
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Consulting workers and subbies on safety decisions: the duty, the steps and the records
Consultation is something you do with the crew on the ground, not a form you keep in the site folder. Here is how to run it so it stands up when a regulator or a certifier asks.
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Water efficient fixtures: meeting BASIX without callbacks
BASIX sets a water target the dwelling has to hit, and the fixtures you install are a large part of how it gets there. Get the selection and the verification right and the certificate holds up; get it wrong and the shortfall surfaces at the worst time.
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What records NSW builders must keep, and how long to hold them
Retention is where most building businesses quietly fail. The records exist; they are just not findable, not complete, or not held for the period the law requires.
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Recording injuries, near misses and toolbox talks: building an incident register that survives the job
Notification is the part everyone practises. The register is the part that decides whether you can reconstruct the job two years later, when the paperwork is all that is left of it.
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Lodging DBP declarations without holding up handover
A declaration is only as good as the documents behind it. Build the lodgement pipeline early, reconcile it against the regulated design, and handover stops being a race against the portal.
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