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According to this factsheet (which admittedly is seven years old) it’s a joint responsibility beween the contractor and the client.
Except that the client has to be a “person conducting a business or undertaking” and that the actual legislation specifically exempts residential stratas. That’s Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011, Regulation 7 (1).
I’ve also gone directly the the WHS authorities and that’s the answer they have given me.
how are individual contractors supposed to ensure that a strata block’s equipment is work safe? The simple answer would be the provision of a certificate by the strata manager or committee to prove installations like roof anchors had been checked.
Agreed. But that’s up to the contractor or their employer. Eg they might have to competence to perform the check themselves if those certificates do not exist. Or they might require that the certification is done first.
So can make sense for stratas to do those things anyway.