Body corporate is responsible for the overall health and the safety of an organization involved with the job on a communal area of the work that the body corporate responsible for.
Body corporate responsibilities includes the following task to perform for health and safety:
- Body corporate is responsible for the health and safety issues of the people involved in the work
- Body corporate is responsible of the entrance and exit ways to the working area should be safe.
- Body corporate is responsible for the safety measures on all of the equipment, machineries, tools and other things that has risk on workers’ health and safety.
- Body corporate is responsible to make a risk management assessment in order to identify hazards in the workplace. It is also to identify potential risk while working on the area.
- After risk management assessment, Body corporate must be able to deliver the report and communicate it to the workers working on the area. These hazards and risk should then be eliminated in work area by providing a health and safety measures and policy.
- Body corporate is responsible in recording incidents involving the health and safety of the worker. Examples are injuries, accidents, and fatalities.
- Body corporate is responsible to make sure that involved workers in the work are using suitable resources for health and safety.
- Body corporate is responsible in making sure that workers are following the safety procedures during work.
- Body corporate is responsible in conducting a reference check to workers in having an insurance policy and good health and safety record.
- Body corporate is responsible in consulting, communicating, cooperating, and coordinating work activities with the workers involved.
- Body corporate is responsible to make sure the worker to formulate a safe work scheme towards any risky work that is being undertaken