JGA Concreting Pty Ltd
| Date accepted: | 5 April 2017 |
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| Proposed expenditure: | $44,896 |
| Date discharged: | 10 May 2019 |
| Actual expenditure: | $60,717 |
Incident
On 21 April 2015 a worker employed by JGA Concreting Pty Ltd sustained serious injuries after falling from a height of approximately five metres at a construction site in Darwin.
Alleged breach
It was alleged that JGA Concreting Pty Ltd failed to comply with health and safety duties under Section 32 of the 'Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act' (the Act).
Summary of work health and safety undertaking
An undertaking given by JGA Concreting Pty Ltd in relation to the alleged contraventions has been accepted by the regulator as an enforceable undertaking under Part 11 of the Act. JGA Concreting Pty Ltd has committed to a range of activities to improve health and safety in the workplace and deliver health and safety initiatives to the wider community. These activities include:
- Providing training to workers in work health and safety, dogging, confined space, working at height, evevated platform and First Aid training.*
- Translating Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) and internal policy documents into Greek.
- Translate SWMS to be provided to HIA to benefit similar industries.*
- Providing donations to the Charles Darwin University English Language Program, the Essington School, children's charities and sporting organisations.
The amount spent on work health and safety activities to date is $9,000.
The financial commitment of the activities proposed in the undertaking are:
- workers or the workplace - $10,896
- industry - $14,000, and
- the community - $20,000.
The financial commitments to the undertaking have a total minimum expenditure of $44,896.
* JGA Concreting Pty Ltd applied to vary these activities. The request for variation was accepted by the Work Health Authority on 8 March 2019.
Reasons for regulator acceptance
The regulator accepted the undertaking under section 216 of the Act and is satisfied that this undertaking offers significant and ongoing commitments to achieve improved work health and safety outcomes and compliance beyond what is required by the law. The regulator believes the undertaking offers a similar deterrent to a successful legal proceeding and will result in a tangible improvement to safety in the workplace, industry and in the Darwin community.