Having conducted a project risk assessment in the planning stage, it is now time to realise these initiatives when developing and setting up your worksite.

This will involves setting up secure boundaries (appropriately braced temporary fencing or hoarding), placing signage around the worksite, providing toilets on site and any other particulars that you documented in your project risk assessment. It may be that these things are implemented over time at the required stages.

Remember, a proactive approach to safety enables employers and their employees to achieve the best results. Setting the project up correctly from the beginning will ensure that employees or visitors who come to your workplace will be adequately protected. If things are not set up well from the beginning it can be really challenging to get things back on track.

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As an employer, you are responsible for providing and maintaining, so far as is reasonably practicable, a working environment that is safe and without risk to the health of your employees and contractors.  

This responsibility includes, but is not limited to, providing:

• Adequate facilities (amenities) on site for the welfare of employees;
• Information, instruction, training and supervision necessary in order for employees to undertake their work safely;
• Plant or systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health.

Following a process that you have developed, including the steps documented in the project risk assessment, before you start the build, will help you achieve this.