04/03/2025
🌀 Be prepared for Tropical Cyclone Alfred - Workplace Health and Safety Advice🌀
While the immediate focus during storms, floods and cyclone is on protecting life and property, workplace health and safety obligations remain critical, as well as consideration for ensuring risk control measures are followed.
Please remember to ensure you have appropriate precautions to prepare your worksite from weather and gusty winds. Below are some practical steps you should take to secure your worksite.
🚧 Preparation – ensuring sites are safe and secure 🚧
• Check fences are secure and locking all gates/entries.
• Post emergency contact information on site fencing.
• Remove or secure items that may blow about in extreme weather, including loose tools and. materials
• Secure floor openings with barricades or covers.
• Cover, backfill or otherwise protect trenches and excavations.
• Brace unfinished or temporary structures.
• Remove scaffolding, ladders, shoring and formwork if possible.
• Have a plan to deal with severe rain and flood.
• Remove or secure (out of direct sunlight) flammable liquids and compressed gas cylinders.
• Secure, fence-off and lock tower crane bases.
• Set tower cranes to weather-vane.
• Close windows and lock heavy machinery cabs before removing the keys.
• Store or position other equipment at its lowest potential energy state.
• Speak with manufacturers and follow their instructions for securing cranes and mobile plant
• You should also roster on a list of standby personnel, and obtain after-hours phone numbers from all relevant subcontractors, in case you need to arrange emergency repairs after a severe storm (e.g. scaffolding).
• In cyclone prone areas all scaffold planks should be secured against uplift during cyclone season, please take suitable action to minimise the risk of scaffold planks dislodging.
For more information to support your business to get prepared visit
http://worksafe.qld.gov.au/.../dangers.../storms-and-floods
