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date it was provided to the principal contractor
    * the review date (if any).

4.3              Implementing a SWMS

Complying with a SWMS
Regulation 300: A person conducting a business or undertaking that includes the carrying out of high risk construction work must put in place arrangements for ensuring that high risk construction work is carried out in accordance with the SWMS for the work.
All persons conducting a business or undertaking who are involved in high risk construction work must develop and implement arrangements to ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the SWMS. The person conducting a business or undertaking who directly engages the workers that will be performing the high risk construction work is best placed to implement the SWMS and to ensure compliance.
Arrangements may include a system of routine or random workplace inspections, for example observing workers and supervisors to see if the control measures outlined in the SWMS are being implemented.
The responsibility to implement, monitor and review the control measures may be allocated to a person supervising the work such as a work crew's leading hand or supervisor. However, the duties of the person conducting a business or undertaking are not transferrable. The person conducting a business or undertaking must be satisfied the control measures are implemented, monitored and reviewed to ensure the health and safety of the workers.

A builder must have a system in place to monitor compliance with the SWMS. This system may include checking that the control measures detailed in the SWMS are being used when the builder or the builder's representative attends the site.

If the work is not being carried out in accordance with the SWMS then the work must stop immediately or as soon as it is safe to do so. Work must not resume until the work can be carried out in accordance with the SWMS. If work is stopped, the work and the SWMS should be reviewed to identify non-compliance and ensure that the method in the SWMS is the most practical and safest way of doing the task. If another method is identified as being a reasonably practicable option, the SWMS should be revised to take this change into account before re-commencing work.

Providing information and instruction
All workers who will be involved in high risk construction work must be provided with information and instruction so they:
    * understand the hazards and risks arising from the work
    * understand and implement the risk controls in a SWMS
    * know what to do if the work is not being conducted in accordance with the SWMS.
This information and instruction may be provided during general construction induction training, workplace-specific training or during a toolbox