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EXPRESS GLASS: SAFETY STANDARDS

COMPLIANCE AND FREE SAFETY CHECKS - Nothing highlights our approach to safety more than our offer of free safety checks to ensure that your property complies to the Australian Standards [AS1288]. Compliance is now a critical issue as recent legal rulings have indicated that all buildings need to comply to the current glazing standards, irrespective of when they were built.

Our free site surveys will let you know the status of the glass in your property and, if necessary, outline a program to bring it in line with current standards, thus ensuring that you meet your legal obligations and responsibilities.

Express Glass is an AGGA accredited installer. Our company has met the requirements of the AGGA accredited installer system, where glaziers are tested on their knowledge of AS 1288, enabling us to apply the AGGA's certification label to our glazing work.

Our glaziers also work to Australian Standards for manufacturing and wind loadings: AS 2208 and AS 1170, respectively, whether it's for emergency repairs or commercial projects undertaken by our Major Projects division.

OUR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY [OH&S] - We have taken the initiative to develop our own OH&S policy - due to the absence of an industry standard - to ensure the safety of our glaziers and the public during repairs in public spaces.

Building on the general Workcover OH&S standards for the construction industry, we have worked with an OH&S consulting firm and hold regular briefings with our glaziers to discuss the issues and concerns. We also ask our clients for feedback on safety issues, through our regular service questionnaires.

Our specially designed toolbelts are a practical example of our OH&S innovation. We developed the belts to ensure that gloves and gauntlets are always at hand - literally - for glaziers working on scaffolding, ladders or on high-rise buildings.

By talking to safety experts, our workforce and our clients, we are approaching the safety issue from all angles, enabling us to develop practical and user-friendly procedures that will be welcomed and implemented by our glaziers in the field.

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