The new 30630QLD Safety Representatives course is now available through B & I Safety Training Pty Ltd.
The course runs for 3 days and is a Queensland Accredited Course.
Topics include: Legislation, Risk Management, and  Safety committee's / Representing workers.

Contact the office on (07) 5494 8700 for more details or to book in. 

The new induction course for the Construction Industry  - CPCOHS1001A - White Card, is now available.

As of the 1st of January 2006, the 2.4m falls from height rule has been reduced to 2m for commercial construction.
This means that no person is allowed to work above 2m unless fall protection has been provided. The 3 metre rule for Housing construction remains the same at present.

Obligations of the Employer and Self employed persons have been replaced with the obligations of a "relevant person." All sections of the act and regulations have been altered by removing any reference to the employer and self employed and replaced with "relevant person".

There seems to be a lot of confusion amongst Safety Officers and Supervisors as to what is acceptable as evidence of having done the blue card course and what's not.

A Ministerial notice from Workplace Health and Safety has allowed induction cards from NSW and Victoria to be valid as blue cards on construction sites in Queensland as of 1/1/2007.