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The ten-minute test

If someone asked today, could you put your hand on these inside ten minutes?

Six records. A real clock. Start it, go and find them, and mark each one as you go. You finish with a dated gap sheet in your business’s name, to print and keep.

No email and no sales call. Your business name and answers stay in this browser, and we can’t see them.

What you’ll be looking for

Six records, each one specific

A WorkSafe inspector can require you to produce documents (OHS Act 2004 (Vic), s 100). A customer’s auditor or your insurer may ask too.

Ten minutes is our yardstick, not a legal deadline.

  1. The signed induction for the last person you hired.

    Employers must give people the information, instruction and training they need to work safely, and keep health and safety records. A signed induction is the simplest way to show it happened.

    OHS Act 2004 (Vic), ss 21(2)(e) and 22

  2. The next ticket or licence due to expire on your site, and who holds it.

    An employer must not allow an employee to do high risk work, such as driving a forklift, without the right licence. If nobody has the expiry dates written down, nobody sees one coming.

    OHS Regulations 2017 (Vic), reg 129

  3. Twelve months of inspection and servicing records for your busiest machine.

    For certain plant, employers must keep a record of inspection and maintenance. Even where that rule does not apply, it is how you show a machine is looked after.

    OHS Regulations 2017 (Vic), reg 106

  4. Your hazardous substances register, and the safety data sheet for the last chemical delivered.

    Employers must keep a register of hazardous substances supplied to the workplace, with a safety data sheet for each, where exposed employees can get to it.

    OHS Regulations 2017 (Vic), regs 155 and 162

  5. Your register of injuries, open at the last entry.

    Victorian employers must keep a register of injuries, in a place workers can get to.

    Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic), s 17

  6. The written procedure for your most dangerous job, with the date it was last reviewed.

    Employers must provide safe systems of work, and WorkSafe counts safe operating procedures among them. A written, dated procedure shows what the safe way is, and that someone still checks it.

    OHS Act 2004 (Vic), s 21(2)(a)