New round of PlaceMakers seminars!

In an industry that’s committed to building safer, healthier and more durable buildings, it’s inevitable that the regulations surrounding it continue to evolve in line with construction techniques and products.

To support its customers in navigating these changes, PlaceMakers continues to offer opportunities for upskilling. This spring, PlaceMakers will once again be providing its builders the opportunity to get up to speed with industry changes – and earn elective skills maintenance points – by attending its next round of seminars.

“Ensuring that our customers can earn all their required elective skills maintenance points through PlaceMakers initiatives is a key focus for us,” says general manager operations and marketing Gary Woodhouse. “We want to support our builders’ professional development and, in turn, the industry’s professionalism and competency as a whole.”

Health and safety focus

The new Health and Safety at Work Act continues to be very topical for our builders, so we’ll spend a bit of time on this. We are doing our best to provide our builders with relatable examples of the Act in practice; covering the key areas including collaboration, overlapping duties, PCBU’s, hazards vs risk management and myth busting.

In-depth look at LBP issues

While touching on the latest board complaints (e.g. number of complaints, outcomes and what the majority of the complaints are about compared to previous years), we will spend some time on one of the most common LBP complaints, namely “poor understanding and application of site supervision”.

This recently prompted the Building Practitioners Board to extend the definition of supervision for LBPs. During the seminar, we will run through various scenarios with attendees to ensure everyone is on the same page about what is and isn’t considered supervision.

Regulatory Updates

The seminars will also include reminders about recent regulatory changes, including the government’s response to the ‘loopy rules’ report, Residential Tenancy Act changes, the recent ban on retrofitting foil insulation and more.