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ProVac Gutter Cleaning
Business Contact: 0411 142 024 17 Loyola Road
Business hours: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Business Summary:
ProVac is a locally family run gutter cleaning business established in 2021. It is a brand new up and coming gutter cleaning business located in Wyndham and most of Melbourne, they specialize in domestic, commercial and industrial work such as cleaning and vacuuming gutters, cleaning/washing downpipes, cleaning solar panels and washing all the roof tiles.
Owner:
Prior to starting his gutter cleaning business, Dean Caserta has over 13 years of experience working for Nufarm, an agricultural chemical company. In addition to this experience, he also worked for Mad Bros Earthmoving business. He has been around the building and constitution industry for many years and used all that experience to create his own company last year.
Employment opportunities:
At this time ProVac is not hiring any employees as it is still a small business and only has the employer and one other employee at the moment so they are not taking jobs at the moment.
But will be taking jobs in the future and they will be located on seek and websites similar to that.
Currently, there are 5 employees within this business. They are:
Owner
4 Gutter Technicians
Work environment:
Gutter Cleaners work in factories, homes, businesses, and other places where they are needed for gutters to be clean. Gutter cleaners need to climb ladders up extremely high places, work in tight spaces and lift heavy machines. Gutter cleaners normally work in all weather conditions except for rain, if it rains gutter cleaners will be unable to do their job without risking their life and they work in hot weather up to 34 degrees. They work in all different types of housing from government housing to big mansions, they also work at big long buildings.
Job titles:
Owner- a person who owns/runs the company, in charge of sorting and dealing out what jobs we have and when and who is doing it, also manages job and sometimes does jobs himself.
Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required to work in this industry. However, the owner has had training from the company that makes the vacuum machines. Dean holds a heavy vehicle license, Level 2 First- Aid and Construction and Induction card.
Job Longevity: At this moment of time it is steady, they hasn't seen any growth or decline but it is expected to grow in the next 5 year
Pay: $75 000
Tasks/Duties:
-Looking after staff and management
-Financial management
-Sales and marketing of the company
-Look over the whole business
- sales and customer relationships and people management.
- Quotes jobs
- Allocates jobs to workers
- Ensures machinery is tested and safe
- Training staff
- Pays staff
Skills/Knowledge and Attributes:
Critical thinking
Critical thinking
Repairing
Repairing
Coordination with others
Coordination with others
Quality control analysis
Quality control analysis
Visualization
Visualization
Problem spotting
Problem spotting
Handling and moving objects
Handling and moving objects
Planning and prioritising work
Planning and prioritising work
Engineering and technology
Engineering and technology
Gutter Technician
Helps the fully qualified with many things such as setting up the job with them, holding up the ladder to make sure they are stable and upright, using the vacuum to suck up all the dirt from the gutters and downpipe.
Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the owner prefers the following:
Year 10 pass
Construction and Induction Card
First- Aid level 2
Job Longevity:
Pay: $60 000
Tasks:
Quoting jobs
studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine the layout of gutter systems and materials required
fabricating and installing metal roofing, rainwater goods and flashings
installing gas appliances, flues and pressure regulating devices
Cleaning gutters and downpipes
Skills/Knowledge and Attributes:
Building and construction
Materials, and methods used to construct or repair houses, buildings, or other structures and also manage entire projects.
Customer and personal service
Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.
Engineering and technology
Use engineering, science and technology to design and produce goods and services.
Administration and management
Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.
Technical design
Design techniques, tools, and principles used to make detailed technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Employment entitlements
All members of ProVac fall under the same award and receive the same entitlements
Award cover: Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020
Entitlements
Meal breaks
Unpaid: An employee is entitled to an unpaid meal break of at least 30 minutes between noon and 1.00 pm.
Paid: An employee is entitled to a paid rest period of 10 minutes between 9.00 am and 11.00 am
Superannuation
An employee does not choose a superannuation fund, the superannuation fund nominated under the industry award. A full-time and part-time employee is entitled to 12% of their pay.
Termination of employment:
Employee’s period of continuous service with the employer at the end of the day the notice is given:
Not more than 1 year - 1 week
More than 1 year but not more than 3 years- 2 weeks
More than 3 years but not more than 5 years - 3 weeks
More than 5 years - 4 weeks
Annual leave: Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks of annual leave, based on a 38 hour week. Overtime is not considered when determining annual leave.
Parental Leave: Employees that receive employer-funded paid parental leave are still entitled to unpaid parental leave of 4 weeks.
Workers Pay:
The pay for a average job is $100 an hour which in a 8 hour day would be $800, from what they earn from a job the employee which is fully qualified earn $25.50 an hour which is $1060 a week
Saturday first two hours $38.19
Saturday after two hours $50.92
Sunday $50.92
Public Holiday $58.85
Shiftwork - finishes after 6pm and at or before 7am - more than 5 shifts in a row - Monday to Friday- $33.86
Shiftwork - finishes after 6pm and at or before 7am - less than 5 shifts in a row or less than 48 hours notice - Monday to Friday - first 2 hours- $38.19
Shiftwork - finishes after 6pm and at or before 7am - less than 5 shifts in a row or less than 48 hours notice - Monday to Friday - after 2 hours- $50.92
Overtime - first 2 hours- $42.54
Overtime - after 2 hours- $56.72
OHS Management:
OHS management help the company to continually improve their safety performance and compliance to health and safety legislation and standards. In doing this, they establish safer working environments that protect people at work by eliminating, or better managing, health and safety hazards.
It helps with:
helping create safer work environments
reducing injuries and injury-related costs – employers save money on medical expenses, the injured employee's wages, insurance claim excesses, replacement labour and increased workers' compensation insurance.
improving business opportunities – many companies have preferential purchasing policies that favour purchasing products or services from companies with an OHSMS
providing measurable systems that can verify OHS performance
demonstrating that the organisation is meeting legal requirements
enhancing the organisation's reputation.
OHS Responsibilities:
Employers: Employers must provide and maintain a working environment that is safe and free of risks to health, so far as is reasonably practicable. As part of this they must, so far as is reasonably practicable: Provide and maintain a safe plant (machinery and equipment).
Provide and maintain safe systems of work - for example, controlling entry to high-risk areas and providing systems to prevent falls from heights.
Ensuring safe usage,handling, storage or transport of plant and substances. Keep workplaces that they manage/control in a safe working condition, free of risks to health and safety(for example, insuring fire exits aren’t blocked, and the worksite is generally tidy). Give your employees the necessary information, instruction, training or supervision to enable them to do their work in a way that is safe and without risks to health.
Employees:
Workers must: take reasonable care for their own health and safety,take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts or omissions, cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements , not 'intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse' anything provided at the workplace for OHS. The Act also specifies that in determining whether a worker failed to take reasonable care, 'regard must be had to what the employee knew about the relevant circumstances'.
Communicating OHS Information
The boss has created a culture of safety in the workplace by properly training his employees about the importance of OHS safety.
Team Meetings: He holds a weekly meeting to remind the staff about it and also shares whenever there is an incident report to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Training: He now makes sure that new employees have the appropriate training of OHS, he also now makes it a part of the employee review process and makes sure he buys the proper safety gear no matter the cost.
Emails: The boss emails whenever there are incident reports or just reminders on important OHS information if needed, he also would sent emails to certain workers depending where they worked, if they were working at a more high risk job site then you will be sent warning and things to look out for.
Risk Assessments: Inside of every company car there would be risk assessments on all risks associated with gutter cleaning, there were ones the boss would give to the workers depending if they were working on a commercial building.
Reporting an Incident
If there is a first-aid trained worker on-site get them to the person who is hurt,
If the situation is still dangerous or high-risk, call emergency services immediately on 000.
Report the incident .
Notify WorkSafe immediately by calling 13 23 60.
Ensure the incident scene is not disturbed until a WorkSafe inspector arrives
Report the incident in writing within 48 hours
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