Master Builders Victoria July-September 2020

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OH&S

Master Builders Victoria will continue to advocate that there needs to be a balance of responsibility between employers and employees for safety in the workplace.

Workplace manslaughter laws come Samuel Smith Senior Coordinator OHS

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or the purposes of compliance, nothing changed on 1 July 2020. If you were meeting your OHS duties the day prior, you continued doing so. The introduction of workplace manslaughter does not require you to do anything additional to what you are already required to do. Master Builders Victoria continues to support members to help meet OHS obligations. The differences will come from how non-compliance is treated. In basic terms, penalties will be harsher.

From 1 July, you may have noticed an advertising campaign alerting to the changes and the harsher penalties. Yourself, employees and the general public will likely be exposed to it and it can be confronting. Providing a safe working environment that is without risk to health is the best way to avoid these scenarios. From a Master Builders Victoria perspective, we’ve written to the State Government expressing our concerns on the timing of the legislation, given

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NEWS

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AFPA

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COMMITTEE ROUND-UP

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PTA LANDSCAPES

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MASTER BUILDERS INSURANCE BROKERS

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MASTER BUILDERS FOUNDATION

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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FROM THE CEO

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GUEST FOREWORD

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