Induct a placement student and run the prestart briefing

What is going on

A placement student is joining the framing crew at the Kellerman Street townhouse project for two weeks. The leading hand, Jack Whitlam, will be off site on Tuesday morning receiving a truss delivery and has asked you to run the site induction and the prestart briefing. The first floor decks for units 1 to 3 are in place, edge protection is installed on the north side only, and a near miss involving a dropped reinforcing bar offcut was recorded last week. The site WHS management plan, the SWMS for first floor work and the toolbox talk template are in the document library. The training matrix and site diary must be updated before work starts.

Your brief

Prepare and deliver a site induction for the placement student covering the site rules, emergency arrangements and current hazards, then run a prestart briefing for the crew on working at heights and dropped objects. Record both correctly in the training matrix and the site diary.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Site WHS Management Plan for Kellerman Street and list the site rules, emergency assembly point, first aiders and the high-risk construction work on the project.
• Walk the site with Tom Buckley and identify the current hazards, including the unprotected south edge of the first floor deck and the temporary lead across the driveway.
• Deliver the site induction to the placement student using the plan, and check that they understand the right to stop unsafe work from the WHS Policy.
• Record the induction as a new entry in the Licences and Training Matrix with the correct category, issue date and expiry.
• Plan a ten-minute prestart briefing on working at heights and dropped objects using the Toolbox Talk Record template and the near miss from the WHS register.
• Deliver the prestart to the crew, record attendance and any hazards raised, and enter the prestart in the Site Diary and Job Register for the day.
• Report the missing edge protection on the south side as a hazard in the WHS Incident and Hazard Register and tell the site supervisor before any work starts on that edge.

What someone in this role would produce

• Completed Toolbox Talk Record with attendance
• Training matrix entry for the induction
• Site diary entry for the day
• Hazard report for the missing edge protection