Definitions & Documentation Requirements

Construction Work

WHS (Work Health and Safety) Regulation 289

Meaning of construction work:

• 'Construction work’ is defined in the WHS Regulations as any work carried out in connection with the construction, alteration, conversion, fitting-out, commissioning, renovation, repair, maintenance, and refurbishment, demolition, decommissioning or dismantling of a structure. Construction work can be commercial, civil, or housing construction and includes the following:
• Any installation or testing carried out in connection with an activity referred to in the above definition.
• The removal from the workplace of any product or waste resulting from demolition.
• The prefabrication or testing of elements, at a place specifically established for the construction work, for use in construction work.
• The assembly of prefabricated elements to form a structure, or the disassembly of prefabricated elements forming part of a structure.
• The installation, testing, or maintenance of an essential service in relation to a structure.
• Any work connected with an excavation.
• Any work connected with any preparatory work or site preparation including landscaping as part of site preparation carried out in connection with an activity referred to in the above definition.
• An activity referred to in the above definition, carried out on, under or near water including work on buoys and obstructions to navigation.