Quality & safety
Verified during the pour, not inspected after it.
Concrete quality and site safety are both decided by calls made under time pressure. These are the checks and records that keep those calls consistent from one pour to the next.
Approach
Safety is a programme decision before it is a site behaviour.
Most incidents on a concrete pour trace back to a decision made weeks earlier — an unrealistic pour rate, a crew sized to the budget rather than the deck, a set-up position nobody checked. By the time a shortcut looks attractive at 6am, the decision that caused it has already been made.
CPS plans pours to be safe rather than managing them to be safe. Crew numbers are set against the area that must close before initial set. Plant is selected for the set-up position that is genuinely available. Where a programme can only be met by running people past the point at which judgement fails, that is raised at tender.
The standard is simple: every CPS crew member goes home the way they arrived, and the deck handed to the following trades is the deck the programme assumed.
Quality control
A finish the following trades can work to.
Concrete quality is decided by a hundred small calls made under time pressure. These are the checks that catch them, and the records that prove it.
- Pre-pour checklist
- On a standard pour the checklist is completed the morning of the pour. Levels, set-out, penetrations, cover, access and plant set-up are walked and signed off, and everything found — quality or safety — is documented before the first truck arrives.
- Post-pour documentation
- Anything that arises through the day goes into the post-pour record: what happened, what was done about it, and what it means for the next deck.
- Level and tolerance control
- Floor levels are monitored through placement, while correction is still possible, and verified against the specified tolerance before the crew leaves the deck.
- Specified finishes
- Steel trowel, burnished, broom, exposed aggregate and grind-and-seal, delivered to the finish schedule and surface class rather than to what is quickest.
- Curing and weather protection
- Canberra frosts and Hunter summers both attack a fresh slab. Curing method and protection are planned into the pour rather than improvised at knock-off.
- Non-conformance close-out
- Where a non-conformance occurs it is recorded and rectified promptly, so the trades following us are not held up waiting on it.
Safety & compliance
What a head contractor receives on day one.
Everything required to sign CPS crews and plant onto site, prepared before mobilisation rather than chased after an audit.
- National Code compliance
- CPS complies with the requirements of the National Code of Practice for the Construction Industry and maintains the safety and quality systems that go with it.
- Documented systems
- Safe Work Method Statements, plant risk assessments, pre-start records and site-specific inductions are prepared per job and issued before mobilisation.
- Competent operators
- Every operator assigned to plant is trained, licensed and assessed as competent on that machine. Competencies are current and verifiable on request.
- Maintained plant
- Pumps and placing booms are serviced to manufacturer’s specification and applicable legislative requirements, with inspection and certification records current.
- Incident investigation
- Near misses are reported and reviewed with the crew involved. Where a work method needs to change, the people doing the work are consulted on why it should change rather than told after the decision is made.
- Environmental practice
- Washout is managed on site in containment trays, or taken off site to a concrete recycling facility. Waste from the placement process is minimised and separated on site.
Prequalification
Insurances, safety management plans, SWMS, plant certification and operator competencies are issued on request. Tell us what your prequalification process requires and we will send the current versions.