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with construction. Examples include:
    * work by architects or engineers in on-site offices or conducting on-site inspections,
      but not architects or engineers working in offices away from the construction site
    * work by a mechanic on an excavator on-site and not in an isolated service area
    * delivering building materials to different points on the site, but not making deliveries
      to a single designated delivery area
    * excavating for a basement garage
    * testing fire equipment on the construction site
    * supervisors and manager moving around the site to monitor work
    * surveying a site after construction has started, but not surveying a Greenfield site
      before construction has started, and
    * traffic control on a construction site.
'In connection with' does not include planning and design activities that might have been carried out prior to commencing the construction work.
 For the purposes of this Code, housing construction work involves construction work relating to the following:
    * detached houses
    * attached dwellings, separated from each other by a fire resisting wall, such as terrace, row or town houses
    * villa-homes, strata or company title home units or residential flats
    * boarding and guest houses, hostels or similar with a floor area <300m², and
    * ancillary buildings to the above, such as private garages, gazeboes and carports.
The above are based on classes 1, 2 & 10 of the Building Code of Australia. Work on multi-storey buildings, i.e. above three habitable storeys, is not considered housing construction work for the purposes of this Code.

Examples of construction work are provided in Table 1 at Appendix A.

1.2              What is not 'construction work'?

Construction work does not include any of the following:
    * the manufacture of plant
    * the prefabrication of elements, other than at a place specifically established for the construction work for use in the construction work
    * the construction or assembly of a structure that, once constructed or assembled, is intended to be transported to another place
    * testing, maintenance or repair work of a minor nature carried out in connection with
      a structure
    * mining or the exploration for or extraction of minerals.
Examples of what is not construction work are provided in Table 2 at Appendix A.

1.3              What is a 'structure'?

The WHS Act defines a structure as anything that is constructed, whether fixed or moveable, temporary or permanent. A structure includes:
    * buildings, masts, towers, framework, pipelines, transport infrastructure and underground works (shafts or tunnels), for example noise reduction barriers on a freeway, communications masts or towers, electricity transmission towers and associated cables, flying cables and supports, guyed towers such as a ski-lift tower
    * any component of a structure
    * part of a structure.
Examples