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to design a large spanning roof truss system for a home
    * property developers, clients, owner-builders
    * a subcontractor engaging an engineer to design precast and tilt-up panels for a home.

Principal contractor[3]
Under the WHS Regulations a principal contractor for a construction project must:
    * Ensure signs are installed that:
          + show the principal contractor's name and telephone contact numbers (including an out of hours telephone number)
          + show the location of the site office for the project, if there is one, and
          + are clearly visible from outside the workplace, or the work area of the workplace, where the construction project is being undertaken.
    * Prepare and review the WHS management plan for the workplace, ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, that each person who is to carry out the construction work is made aware of the plan, their right to inspect it and ensuring that a copy of the WHS management plan is accessible for the appropriate amount of time.
    * Obtain the SWMS before high risk construction work on the construction project commences.
    * Make arrangements for ensuring compliance with the requirements for general workplace management in Part 3.2 of the WHS Regulations.
    * Manage the specific risks to health and safety associated with:
          + the storage, movement and disposal of construction materials and waste at the workplace
          + the storage of plant that is not in use
          + traffic in the vicinity of the workplace that may be affected by construction work carried out in connection with the construction, and
          + essential services at the workplace.
More detail on the WHS management plan is in Chapter 5 of this Code. Information on the role of the principal contractor in general workplace management arrangements is in Chapter 7 of this Code.

Persons who have management or control of a construction workplace
A person with management or control of a workplace at which construction work is carried out must:
    * ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the workplace is secured from unauthorised access, having regard to all relevant matters, including risks to health and safety arising from unauthorised access to the workplace, the likelihood of unauthorised access occurring and,
      to the extent to which it cannot be prevented, how to isolate hazards within the workplace
    * obtain essential services information when excavation work is to be carried out and provide
      it to any person engaged to carry out the excavation work.
Depending on the circumstances, both the builder and subcontractors may have these duties in relation to the part of the workplace over which they have management or control.
For example, the person with management or control of the workplace must take all reasonable