How safe is your workplace?

[ellipsis]

Speaking of boats , nip down to the maritime museum & check out the Rapaki , I've used that . ' '.

...I was crew on that on quite a few occasions...was terribly fucked off when she steamed out of the moles for the last time...

[trustme]

I think we had to give 3 days notice so they could build of a head of steam , or maybe that was so they could have time to drag the crew out of the pub & sober them up. Not you though eh Neil!!!. She was a beauty.

[Grumph]

...I was crew on that on quite a few occasions...was terribly fucked off when she steamed out of the moles for the last time...

I had lunch on board a few times, one of my neighbours was a harbour board engineer, a good friend from the bike world was another who worked on her.

[Ocean1]

The issue being that the Australian legislation nominates contractors and their subcontractors to be treated in the same manner as employees and that the PCBU engaging them are to be held responsible for a fuck up.

Granted I don't know the exact form of the Australian legislation that is being adopted in NZ but it seems this line of thinking will be maintained in the legislation.

This means that you can have a strong engagement process, a strong induction and hazard management/reporting system, But if you're not monitoring the works and in a position to to stop an unsafe practice that could or does cause an injury or incident then you can and will be held responsible.

To get a contractor on site you need to review all their systems against legislation, and then monitor their works in the form of documented task observations.

One of the case studies involves a factory that engaged a contractor to repair a section of damaged roof, The contractor submitted a tender with all required documentation and won the job. The contractor then rang his mate harry and got him to do it instead.

Harry was inducted into the workplace, had a swms, started the work. The safety adviser from the factory inspected the works after setup was completed and noted that he was wearing his ppe, that a fall arrest system was in place that consisted of netting.

3 hours later Harry was picked up off the floor below and taken to hospital. The investigation found that Harry had slipped off his work boots at some stage and put on his trainers, then to get to the flashing he had removed the safety net from where it was fitted. While doing so he had slipped and fallen head first to the ground below.

The factory copped the prosecution and all three parties were fined heavily. It was proven that the factory was negligent in failing to ensure that the works were monitored and undertaken safely.

Like I said, fuck all intelligent.

[Grubber]

We are currently going through all the H&S systems at my work.
We now have a segment for driving in the wind. As in if it's too windy we have to pull over and tie the curtains of our trailer up.
One has to do a weather check prior to departure each time to ensure the conditions are ok to travel.
Not sure what you do when you head over the hill and find the wind has crept up to a significant level. Guess we will write up a safety page for that too.
Might as well just stay at home.

[trustme]

I would imagine that a lot of farms are a husband / wife partnership. In this brave new world I suspect if Farmer Brown stuffs up & kills himself , his widow as a co director of the business will then be prosecuted. If she wasn't stuffed before she certainly will be when Work Safe have finished. Already happened with the widow of the bloke whose fishing boat sank at Bluff.

Is that really justice being served ??

[Voltaire]

I would imagine that a lot of farms are a husband / wife partnership. In this brave new world I suspect if Farmer Brown stuffs up & kills himself , his widow as a co director of the business will then be prosecuted. If she wasn't stuffed before she certainly will be when Work Safe have finished. Already happened with the widow of the bloke whose fishing boat sank at Bluff.

Is that really justice being served ??

The Company I work for is based in Chicago, how does that work I wonder?
The local Director here sees me at the Xmas party and has no idea what I do.....as we are run out of Sydney.
Should I put all my stuff in a trust ?

[trustme]

A company we work for is a multinational, the NZ division is run out of OZ. When they had the fatal last year, 4 senior managers received a letter, ' Lawyer up you are on your own '.
2 of those guys have since gone, one who had been there over 20 years was told leave & you get entitlements , stay & be sacked & get nothing. He knew nothing about the job , he did not know it was happening ,had never been to the site , never knew the bloke who was killed .
He now works as Mr Fixit on Vineyard in the Wairarapa, happy as a sand boy & glad to be out.

[Pixie]

I've got a worm farm.Obviously,I'm going to die at any moment.
I think I'll move into explosives for the safety aspect.

[Pixie]

I was thinking about taking up worm farming but according to Worksafe its pretty dangerous , closely followed by mini golf

You may joke,but a large proportion of all the human beings that ever existed were eaten by worms.

[R650R]

We are currently going through all the H&S systems at my work.
We now have a segment for driving in the wind. As in if it's too windy we have to pull over and tie the curtains of our trailer up.
One has to do a weather check prior to departure each time to ensure the conditions are ok to travel.
Not sure what you do when you head over the hill and find the wind has crept up to a significant level. Guess we will write up a safety page for that too.
Might as well just stay at home.

I saw those pics from Matamau.... that spot takes out a couple of trucks a year on average. Had a couple of seat cover moments there myself.
A real headache to do anything officially about safety wise. It can be quite uncomfortable for the driver on a windy night but in terms of a unit actually being lifted/rolled its one of those freak gusts that does the damage and you cant plan for that.
Tranist now how signs up telling drivers to report 'windy conditions' but what scares a car driver might not even rate on truck scale.... waiting for the day when cops close the roads for wind....
While Matamau keeps taking its toll there are lots of other places where wind is scarey but trucks never come to grief or extremly rarely, trees or terrain deflects the wind just enough.
I would love to hear what the cops/insurance company/osh/transit define as unsafe winds to travel if something like that ever got to court level????
Then there's the likes of the bottom of Titiokoura in the mornings where the wind absolutely howls through regardless of the forecast at a certain time in the early morning, a local phenomenon due to air temp change as sun rises etc...
Good luck with you exercise in writing up a plan for this, especially the part about how it will be safe for a lone driver to safely open a curtainside in extreme winds for the exercise in tying them back, exposing to a new separate risk there!!!

[Grubber]

You see my dilemma.

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[awa355]

Some take this 'Mini Golf' seriously.

A brief run down of some of the hazards from a UK site.

Here's some of the things to look out for:

Moss
Bird droppings
Overgrown plants round edges (Some advice on planting.)
Check paths to and from the hole aren't slippery
Plants between tee border and path
Plants on fairway and in hole itself
Loose bricks
Damage to playing surface
Damage to obstacles
Identify and clean any drainage points (NB ensure all drainage holes in cup are clear)

All holes visible to passers-by or enquirers should be particularly clean and well kept.



http://www.miniaturegolfer.com/minia...ssessment.html

[TheDemonLord]

All holes visible to passers-by or enquirers should be particularly clean and well kept.

isn't that part of the White House's H&S policy too?

[Kickaha]

While Matamau keeps taking its toll there are lots of other places where wind is scarey but trucks never come to grief or extremly rarely, trees or terrain deflects the wind just enough.

I remember heading through to Pukekohe one year and about 5-10km north of Kaikoura seeing an 8x4 truck + 4 axle trailer on it's side having been blown off the road, a couple of Km before that there was a destroyed caravan, the road (SH1) had been closed the night before due to wind

I've seen a few caravans over the years but that's the only truck