KPW Carpentry and Construction

KPW Carpentry and Construction

About KPW Carpentry and Construction

KPW Carpentry and Construction is a cabinetmaking business. In this business, you would be manufacturing cabinets and installing kitchens, laundry, and bathrooms. This business has been around for five years and is located in Werribee, the work is based all throughout Werribee. The business is open every day except for Sundays when it's closed. Its open hours are from 8 am to 4 pm and there is only one person who works for KPW Carpentry and Construction.

KPW Carpentry and Construction OHS

KPW Carpentry and Construction follows the guidelines set by Work safe and the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act), which is the primary workplace health and safety law in Victoria. It sets out principles, duties and rights about OHS.

OHS Responsibilities

Employee:

·         Provide a safe work environment

·         Machinery and equipment are safe and properly maintained

·         Provide Training

·         Adequate workplace facilities are available for workers

·         Provides correct PPE

·         Following procedures set by Safe Work Victoria

·         Keeps records

·         Communicates new Policies and Procedures to managers and employees

Owner:

·         Provide and maintain plant (machinery and equipment)

·         Provide and maintain safe systems of work

·         Ensure the safe use, handling and transport of plant or hazardous substances

·         Keep the workplace in safe working condition

·         Provide suitable facilities for the welfare of employees

·         Provide employees necessary training, supervision and information for them to do their work without risks to their health

Manager:

·         Make sure the work site is safe to work

·         Oversees staff are informed of safe practices.

·         Provides training

·         Ensures the correct storage of PPE.

·         Make sure to report OHS incidents are reported to Worksafe

Clients:

·         Make sure they are safe while on the worksite.

·         Make sure the workplace is ready and safe for employees to work on.

·         Follow instructions of staff

Apprentice:

·         Make sure the workplace is safe

·         Follow the OHS procedures

·         Ensure following instructions

·         Don't be reckless or misuse anything at the workshop.

·         Wear correct PPE

Communicating OHS Information

You communicate OHS by using the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) it is used to see the properties of each chemical. the physical, health, and environmental health hazards, protective measures and safety precautions for handling, storing, and transporting the chemical. Risk Assessments are communicated by whoever on the worksite does them to show all the hazards that are on their current worksite. It is stored In the owner’s office. Team meetings happen every week and they would talk about the work they are doing and will discuss the measurements, and plan for a house, etc. There would be a few signs like the protective footwear where it would be inside the workplace on a wall. It must be worn one so that the builders know they have to wear good work boots, another which would be unauthorised entry at the entrance, so no random people try get into the workplace.

Personnel Information

Job Title: Owner

Qualifications:

·         Certificate III in Cabinet Making

·         First aid – Level 2

·         Registered Business certificate

·         Construction and Induction card

Pay: $1560 per week

Job Longevity: Cabinet makers are in high demand as employees have grown over the past 5 years. In the next 5 years, the employment rate will be stable.

Duties:

·         Design work orders

·         Train Staff

·         select working and materials

·         marking out, cutting and shaping wood

·         work from drawings and specifications to make furniture

·         assembling parts to form sections of furniture

·         Communicate with customers

·         Book jobs

Skills/Knowledge and Attributes

Building and construction- Knowledge of materials, measurement and equipment

Technical Design- Draw and interpret drawings

Mechanical- Knowledge of tools and machinery

Monitoring- Observing staff and providing instruction

Critical Thinking- Problem-solving designs.

Visualisation- knowledge of how things will look before plans and installation.

Entitlements

Long Service- Full-time employees are entitled to long service leave after 10 years of working for the same company.

Superannuation- Employers must pay 10% of their employee's weekly wage to their full-time staff.

Breaks- Usual working day of 8 am to 4 pm. Employees are entitled to two- 10 minutes paid breaks and one 45 minute break.

Rostered Day Off- Employees are entitled to one rostered day off a fortnight if they have worked beyond 5 hours of overtime.

Job Title:

Construction Manager

Qualification:

·         White Card

·         Formal qualification in building or construction management

·         have 5 years of relevant trade experience to work as a Construction Project Manager

·         Vocational Education and Training (VET) and university are both common study pathways.

Pay:

Construction Managers make $3,450 per week.

Job Longevity

he number of Construction Project Managers grew very strongly over 5 years:

from 25,100 in 2011 to 42,100 in 2016.

Manager Duties:

• interpreting architectural drawings and specifications

• coordinating labour resources, and procurement and delivery of materials, plant and equipment

• consulting with Architects, Engineering Professionals and other professionals, and Technical and Trades Workers

• negotiating with building owners, property developers and subcontractors involved in the construction process to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget

• preparing tenders and contract bids

• operating and implementing coordinated work programs for sites

Skills/Knowledge and Attributes:

·         Building and Construction

·         Technical Design

·         Customer and personal service

·         Coordination with others

·         Active listening

·         Critical thinking

·         Oral expression

·         Deductive Reasoning

·         Negotiating and resolving conflicts

·         Coordinating the work of a team

·         Planning or prioritising work

·         Scheduling work and activities

Entitlements

Long service:

Construction managers are entitled to long service leave after 10 years of working for the same company.

Superannuation:

Under the superannuation guarantee, employers have to pay superannuation contributions of 10% of an employee's ordinary time earnings when an employee is paid $450 or more before tax in a month and is over 18 years, or under 18 years and works over 30 hours a week.

Breaks:

They get a rest break which is a 10 minute paid break that counts as time worked. They also get a meal break if they work 5 hours which is a 30 minute unpaid break that doesn’t count as time worked, except for shift workers. Meal breaks for shift workers are paid and count as time worked.

Rostered day off:

Employees are entitled to one rostered day off a fortnight if they have worked beyond 5 hours of overtime.

Job Title: Apprentice

Qualifications:

·         Construction and Induction card

·         Certificate III in Cabinet Making

·         Certificate III in Furniture Making

Pay:

$1,050 per week

Job Longevity:

Cabinet makers have stayed about the same in the last 5 years, it’s expected to stay the same for the next 5 years.

Duties:

Listen to supervisor

Make sure workplace is kept clean

Do work you get told to do

Communicate with work mates

Skills, Knowledge and Attributes:

• Enjoy practical and manual activities

• Able to follow written instructions

• Able to work to a high level of accuracy

• Able to make mathematical calculations

• Good communication skills

• Good hand-eye coordination

• Able to work independently or as part of a team

• Free from allergies to dust

Entitlements                   

Long service:

Full-time employees are entitled to long service leave after 10 years of working for the same company.

Superannuation:

superannuation needs to be paid during periods of leave while on workers compensation if the employee: can't work because of a work-related injury or illness. is getting paid workers compensation payments or regular payments from their employer. is still employed by their employer. For each workers compensation claim, superannuation must be paid for no more than 52 weeks. The weeks don't have to be consecutive.

Breaks:

They get a rest break which is a 10 minute paid break that counts as time worked. They also get a meal break if they work 5 hours which is a 30 minute unpaid break that doesn’t count as time worked, except for shift workers. Meal breaks for shift workers are paid and count as time worked.

Rostered Day Off:

Full-time employees can accumulate 1 paid RDO during a roster period of 4 weeks. They are entitled to 13 RDOs per year when they work a 20 day cycle continuously for 12 months. During a 4 week cycle of 20 days (5 days each week), an employee will work 8 hours per day for 19 days and has 1 paid RDO.

Award

KPW Carpentry and Construction fall under the Joinery and Building Trades Award (MA000029). The Joinery Award covers employers in the joinery and building trades industries and their employees who fit within the classifications of the award. Employees are also covered if they work in particular jobs covered by the Joinery Award, and their employer is not covered by another award with a more appropriate classification.

Carpentry Union

The union covering Carpenters in Australia is the building workers industrial Union. expanded coverage, discussion about merging the various building union had begun by the 1930s and in 1934 the new south wales state carpenters and bricklayers' unions merged as the building workers industrial union with approaches also being made to the plasterers, painter and laborer's unions.

Pay

The pay for a full-time worker in this job would be $24.56 per hour and for a week it would be $933.21 depending on hours worked.

Penalty Rates

·         Overtime Monday to Friday – first 2 hours - $36.84 per hour

·         overtime – Monday to Friday – after 2 hours - $49.12 per hour,

·         Overtime – Saturday – before 12 noon – first 2 hours - $36.84 per hour

·         overtime – Saturday – before 12 noon – after 2 hours – and all work after 12 noon - $49.12 per hour

·         Overtime – Sunday - $49.12 per hour

·         Public Holiday - $61.40 per hour with a minimum payment of 4 hours

·         Minimum break after working overtime - $49.12 per hour until a break of 10 hours in a row is given

·         Working through a meal break - $49.12 per hour for all work done during a meal break and thereafter until a meal break is taken

·         Working on a RDO – the appropriate Saturday overtime rates

·         Minimum break after working overtime - $49.12 per hour until a break of 8 hours is given