Common use of SITE AND PUBLIC SECURITY Clause in Contracts

SITE AND PUBLIC SECURITY. Notwithstanding the Contractor’s obligations to site and public security as stated elsewhere in this Contract, the Contractor shall monitor and control, wherever practicable, the access of all persons to the Site. The Contractor shall ensure that no persons, unrelated to the Contract, enter the Site without the express permission of the Contractor. PPE standards shall apply at all times and a person shall only enter the Site after that person has received a safety briefing regarding hazards relevant to the Site. SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENTS Where construction work on the Site is high risk construction work, the Contractor shall ensure that a person having day-to-day, on Site control of the high-risk work at the Site gives the Contractor a written Safe Work Method Statement before the high risk construction work commences. The Contractor shall ensure that the Safe Work Method Statement is kept up to date. For the purposes of this clause, high risk construction work includes: work involving a risk of a person falling 2 metres or more; or work on telecommunications towers; or the demolition of any existing structure; or disturbing or removing asbestos; or the alteration to a structure that requires the structure to be temporarily supported to prevent its collapse; or work within a confined space; the excavation to a depth of more than 1.5 metres; or the construction of tunnels; or the use of explosives; or work on or near pressurised gas pipes (including distribution mains); or work on or near chemical, fuel or refrigerant lines; or work on or near energised electrical installations and lines (whether overhead or underground); or work in an area that may have a contaminated or flammable atmosphere; or work involving tilt-up or precast concrete; or work on or adjacent to roads or railways that are in use; or work on a construction site where there is movement of powered mobile plant; or work in an area where there are artificial extremes of temperature; or work in, over or adjacent to water or other liquids if there is a risk of drowning; or work involving diving. The Contractor shall ensure that a Safe Work Method Statement will cover all high-risk construction work done at the Site, and that the high risk construction work is carried out in accordance with the statement. Where work is carried out other than in accordance with the Safe Work Method Statement, the Contractor shall ensure that the work ceases (when it is safe to do so) and does not resume until the statement is complied with. The Contractor shall ensure that the safe work method statement describes: each high-risk construction work activity that is or includes a hazard to which a person at the construction site is likely to be exposed; the risk of injury or harm to a person resulting from any such hazards; the safety measures to be implemented to reduce the risk, including the control measures to be applied to the activity or hazards; and a description of the equipment used in the work activity; and the qualifications and training (if any) required for persons doing the work to do it safely. NOISE CONTROL The Superintendent may, at any time, direct the Contractor to take reasonable steps to control noise including, but not limited to: the substitution of noisy equipment or processes with less noisy alternatives; the modification of equipment (where this is practical and can be done safely and following consultation with the manufacturer); situating noisy equipment away from noise sensitive areas; undertaking noisy work in areas or at times specified by the Superintendent; installing screens to limit the impact of noise on noise-sensitive areas; any other measure the Authority’s Representative considers reasonable; and for the purpose of this clause, ‘equipment’ has the same meaning as stated in section 3 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA). The Contractor must: carry out the work in accordance with AS 2436-2010 Guide to Noise and Vibration Control on Construction, Demolition and Maintenance Sites; ensure the equipment used is the quietest reasonably available; and prepare and have approved by the CEO of the Environmental Protection Authority a noise management plan if required. Where the construction work is carried out between 7 pm and 7 am, or on Sundays or Public Holidays, the Contractor must also: advise the occupants of all nearby properties of the work to be done at least 24 hours before it commences; and be able to establish that it was reasonably necessary for the work to be carried out at that time. Where a local government or Authority requires the Contractor to submit a noise management plan, the Contractor must submit the noise management plan to the relevant entity (as well as any application fee due in relation to that noise management plan) 7 calendar days prior to commencing the Work. Where the Contractor has prepared a noise management plan in accordance with this clause 2.9 Work must be carried out in accordance with that plan. The Superintendent may direct the Contractor to provide to the Superintendent: a written statement confirming it has complied with its requirements under this clause in relation to noise; and a certificate of acoustic performance issued by a laboratory registered with the National Association of Testing Authorities Australia for any equipment before permitting its use, or continued use, on the Site.