Registration can be effected by downloading an Employer Registration Application and posting it to Construction Benefit Services. It is compulsory to register within one month of employing workers in the construction industry.

An employer is an individual, partnership, company or family trust employing workers (including apprentices and casuals):

• for 3 or more days in any month (of no less than 5 hours per day), under a contract of service in the construction industry;
• who work predominantly on-site;
• in a classification of work referred to in one of the prescribed Awards.

State Awards

Building and Construction Industry (SA) Award 2006

(replaces following Awards from 24/3/06)
Building and Construction Workers (State) Award
Building Trades (South Australia) Construction Award

Building Trades and Labourers (Mixed Enterprise and Factory) Award

(replaces following Award from 24/3/06)
Carpenters and Joiners (General) Award

Electrical Contracting Industry (South Australia) Award

Metal Industry (South Australia) Award Plumbers and Gasfitters (South Australia) Award Part 1 On-Site Construction

Stonemasons and Monumental Workers Award

Federal Awards

Carpenters and Joiners Award

Electrical Contracting Industry Award 1988 Part 2

Glass Merchants and Glazing Contractors (South Australia) Award

National Building and Construction Industry Award

National Metal and Engineering On-Site Construction Industry Award

Plumbers and Gasfitters (Southern States) Construction Agreement Sprinkler Pipe-Fitters Award

You may voluntarily register with the scheme if you employ workers off-site:

• under the Fibrous Plasterers (Factory) Award or;
• as a Carpenter, Joiner, Tradesperson, Terrazzo Assistant, Factory Hand, Machinist or Adult Trainee - Terrazzo Worker (1st six months) in the National Joinery and Building Trades Product Award 1993. (and previously paid under the Terrazzo & Concrete Casting Award).

The Act does not apply to employment:

• by the Crown or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown,
• by a council,
• where the worker carries out construction work on premises owned or occupied by their employer (not being premises intended for subsequent sale or lease) and that is the sole construction work in which the worker is engaged by that employer.