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identifying hazards that may cause injury
    * if necessary, assessing the risks associated with these hazards
    * implementing risk control measures
    * reviewing risk control measures to ensure they are effective.
Guidance on the general risk management process is available in the Code of Practice:
How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks.

Consulting workers
Consultation involves sharing of information, giving workers a reasonable opportunity to express views and taking those views into account before making decisions on health and safety matters.

Section 47: The WHS Act requires that you consult, so far as is reasonably practicable, with workers who carry out work for you who are (or are likely to be) directly affected by a work
health and safety matter

Section 48: If the workers are represented by a health and safety representative, the consultation must involve that representative.

You must consult your workers and their health and safety representatives at every step of the risk management process. By drawing on their experience, knowledge and ideas, you are more likely to identify fall hazards and develop effective control measures.

Consulting, co-operating and co-ordinating activities with other duty holders
Section 46: The WHS Act requires that you consult, co-operate and co-ordinate activities with
all other persons who have a work health or safety duty in relation to the same matter, so far
as is reasonably practicable

Sometimes you may share responsibility for a health and safety matter with other business operators who are involved in the same activities or who share the same workplace. In these situations, you should find out who is doing what and work together with other duty holders in
a co-operative and co-ordinated way so that all risks are eliminated or minimised, so far as is reasonably practicable.

For example, the owner of a transport company with large trucks should consult the goods suppliers as well as the businesses having the goods delivered about how the risk of falls will be controlled during loading and unloading. This may include checking whether suitable equipment
is available at each site so that workers do not have to climb on top of loads on the truck and be
at risk of falling.

Further guidance is available in the Code of Practice: Work Health and Safety Consultation,
Co-operation and Co-ordination.

2.  MANAGING THE RISK OF FALLS

2.1 How to identify fall hazards
You must identify all locations and tasks that could cause injury due to a fall. This includes access to the areas where work is to be carried out. Tasks that need particular attention are those carried out:
    * on any structure or plant being constructed or installed, demolished or dismantled, inspected, tested, repaired or cleaned
    * on a