Quality

Browse myBig’s curated collection to help with compliance of the National Construction Code (NCC).

The NCC is a performance-based code, and sets the minimum required level for the safety, health, amenity, accessibility and sustainability of certain buildings.

Resources included in this collection are:
•    selected state and territories legislation
•    standards and tolerances guides
•    codes
•    codes of practice
•    NSW Fair Trading documentation
•    Design and Building Practitioner’s documentation
•    work licences and certificates
•    certificates of occupancy, and
•    building certifiers documentation

Australian Standards form a key component to reaching the Performance Solution, and Deemed-To-Satisfy (DTS) Solution, in compliance of the NCC.

The NCC Primary Referenced standards are available separately in the following sets:

NCC Primary References Set
NCC Primary References Plus Set
NCC Primary References Large Business Set

Trade Sets for Australian Standards are also available on myBIG.

Technical qualifications for licensing: Queensland Building and Construction Commission licence requirements (QLD)

Sets out the technical qualifications required for each class of licence under Schedules 2, 3 and 3A of the QBCC Regulation.

Guideline for farmstay operators (QLD)

Intended to assist farmstay operators to understand and comply with their obligations.

Welding processes

Provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to manage health and safety risks associated with welding processes in their workplace.

Tower crane

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to comply with their health and safety duties when carrying out work with tower cranes.

Tilt-up and pre-cast construction

This code of practice applies to the principal safety issues associated with tilt-up and pre-cast construction; it includes basic guidance on casting of panels, panel lifting and rigging systems, propping and securing of panels and work at height associated with panels and other pre-cast concrete elements; it does not consider all issues in this type of construction but focuses on the primary safety issues; this code of practice does not discuss pre-tensioning and post-tensioning of concrete elements.

Steel construction

Provides advice aimed at preventing the risk of injury or death to persons undertaking steel construction and other persons at the workplace.

Scaffolding

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to comply with their health and safety duties relating to scaffolds, scaffolding and scaffolding work.

Safe design of structures

Provides practical guidance to persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who design structures that will be used, or could reasonably be expected to be used, as a workplace; this includes architects, building designers and engineers; this Code is also relevant for anyone making decisions that influence the design outcome, such as clients, developers and builders.

Mobile crane

Provides practical advice about how to manage risks associated with mobile cranes, vehicle-loading cranes and other mobile plant used as a mobile crane to raise or lower a freely suspended load.

Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace

Provides practical guidance to PCBUs on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals used in their workplace.