Electrical Safety Regulations, Codes, and Standards
Ensuring Compliance:
We adhere strictly to Sydney’s highest standards for electrical safety. Our compliance with the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 and all relevant Australian Standards (including AS/NZS 3012 for Construction and Demolition Work) underscores our commitment to safe working practices. Our Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are meticulously prepared and signed before any project begins to guarantee safety from the start.
Our WH&S Statement
Commitment to Health and Safety:
LightSpeed Electrical is steadfast in its commitment to the health and safety of our workers and all individuals affected by our operations. We enforce and abide by WHS legislation, demonstrating due diligence and implementing best practice strategies and industry-specific WHS policies and procedures.
Responsibilities and Accountability:
Our managers and supervisors are responsible for the proactive implementation of our safety policies. They maintain accountability for their teams’ adherence to safety protocols, ensuring that safety measures are not just followed but integrated into our daily operations.
Employee Safety Obligations:
All employees are required to take reasonable care for their own safety and that of others. They must comply with all company safety policies and procedures, contributing to a safe working environment.
Safety Objectives
Our Goals for a Safe Workplace:
We aim to:
- Prevent work-related injuries and illnesses and aspire to an incident-free workplace.
- Ensure consistency regarding electrical safety regulations.
- Continuously improve the health and safety skills of our workers.
- Pursue industry best practice and a safe workplace culture.
- Provide an emergency response program.
- Comply with all legislative requirements.
These objectives will be achieved by:
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the nature of operations and the associated hazards and risks for the purpose of preventing illness or injury to any person.
- Provision of processes to eliminate or minimize risks.
- Promotion of and abidance to electrical safety regulations.
- Provision of a healthy and safe work environment with appropriate resources, processes, and support to enable work to be undertaken in the safest possible way.
- Provision of safe systems of work including the safe use, handling, and storage of plant, structures, and substances.
- Involving our workers in the decision-making processes through structured and informal communication, consultation, and learning.
- Provision of necessary information, training, instruction, or supervision.
- Provision of adequate facilities for the welfare of workers.
- Provision of appropriate processes for reporting, receiving, and considering information regarding incidents, hazards, and risks and responding in a timely way to that information.
- Monitoring the health of workers, the effectiveness of systems and workplace conditions.
- Providing effective injury management and rehabilitation strategies.
POLICY STATEMENT and INJURY MANAGEMENT
Lightspeed Electrical is committed to the health, safety, and welfare of all persons at our workplace and the timely, safe, and durable rehabilitation and return-to-work for workers who suffer a work-related injury or illness.
Injury Management involves:
- Having systems in place so that everyone in the workplace agrees, understands, and knows what to do in the event of an injury.
- Ensuring all employees are aware of current electrical safety regulations.
- Early reporting of injuries (including notifiable incidents to the regulator).
- Timely provision of treatment and assistance for return-to-work.
- Provision of assistance to treating doctors with regard to suitable duties.
- Appropriate return-to-work – the workplace is the most effective place for a worker to recover.
- The injured worker, the employer, the insurer, and treatment providers working in an effective and coordinated way.
- Timely payment of weekly benefits and medical expenses.
Lightspeed Electrical has developed a return-to-work program to communicate the processes that are in place to ensure effective injury management. The Return-To-Work program identifies the:
- Commitment of the organization to rehabilitation and return-to-work.
- Rights and responsibilities of injured workers.
- Procedure for injury management.
- Workers Compensation Insurer.
- WorkCover Claims Assistance Service.
- Workers Compensation Commission.
- Return-To-Work Coordinator.
- Rehabilitation Provider.
Lightspeed will provide the appropriate support and resources to ensure the objectives of this policy are achieved.
