News

From today Queensland is adopting a nationally-agreed definition of a COVID-19 close contact, as well as applying consistent isolation periods for people who have tested positive.

Read all about the Queensland Government’s recently announced changes to requirements for close and casual contacts, and how to manage a COVID-19 case in the workplace.

The federal government has extended its small medium enterprise (SME) Recovery Loan Scheme until June 2022.

If you are completing construction work for businesses with mask mandates, you must follow their directives and advice.

From 17 December 2021 some premises will only allow fully vaccinated persons in their venues. If you are working at one of these you and your workers undertaking that work will likely need to be vaccinated.

With the border re-opening from 1am on 13 December 2021, Queensland Health recently released a Queensland restrictions update that covers changes to Queensland’s border restrictions at 80 per cent fully vaccinated, as well as the Border Restrictions Direction (No. 56).

Set down the tools and pick up the calendar to look at what the holidays mean for your business and your cash flow.

It’s time to start preparing to submit the next round of QBCC Annual Reporting information.

On Tuesday, 12 October this week, it was reported that USG Boral had advised their purchasers of a particular fire-rated plasterboard product of low levels of asbestos detected in the vermiculite ingredient at their Camellia site in Sydney.

It's not always the responsibility of the principal contractor on a construction site to manage the risk of falls, particularly the risk of falls through penetrations.