High risk construction work is a never-ending list of potential dangers and could be hazards that eventually result in tedious paperwork. Some workers just ignore risk assessment for construction and instead hope the painful sting of regulation doesn’t find them. With all the paperwork that’s involved, risk assessments take too much time and when you’re on the job, time is money. So who can even afford doing a totally compliant risk assessment in construction anyway?

But let’s think about construction risk assessments differently for a moment. In Queensland, if you are a worker with a noncompliant construction risk assessment form, you could face a fine of $50 000 and that’s just if your worksite is not up to the standards of OHS legislation Australia. If an injury or death were to occur, then you’d be looking at $300 000 and a five-year jail term.

Now let’s ask a different question: who can afford not doing a totally compliant risk assessment in construction?