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| Thread ID: 137929 | 2014-09-10 06:43:00 | Dangerous occupation | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 1383616 | 2014-09-13 22:21:00 | Saw a couple of engineer types at Waiuku earlier this year. Got out of their cars, dayglos on, hard-hats, to look at the footpath. Heard Waiuku was dangerous. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 1383617 | 2014-09-14 01:35:00 | What's even worse is watching the block NZ while they had cranes on site for the roofs and not one contestant had a hard hat or safety vest, sheer madness. Osh should have been there after all the evidence is out in the public domain Holy sabbatical ! No Hi viz vest ? What were they thinking? Lucky the crane didn't fall on them then.:horrified:banana |
Krakka (17266) | ||
| 1383618 | 2014-09-14 02:57:00 | What's funny, is that going home a couple of weeks ago, was a home handyman (assumption) standing on an extension ladder, standing on top of a mobile scaffold, painting his chimney. I wonder what OSH/Worksafe would have to say about that. Husband did one place by parking the ute alongside then putting his extension ladder in the back of the ute and standing on that. But the ladder was safer that way....it won't slip up against the ute tray..... amd we needed the height. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1383619 | 2014-09-14 04:29:00 | Perhaps not the 600mm part, that was an example given by a Worksafe inspector. What I have seen however is a site given a prohibition order to prevent them from using a 1.65m scaffold without handrails. I have also heard of an entire new subdivision shut down because Fall protection from a roof was insufficient on 1 house. (Sub division was mostly operated by one company).. Scaffolding is meant to be built to code and supplied with all required items, The more shoddy practices are stamped out the more people will hopefully pull their heads out of their collective anuses and ensure the hand rails make it to site and that the workers are given the 8 seconds it takes to attach them. Most costs and down time attributed to safety come from people being caught taking shortcuts with no positive payoff and considerable risk, and and having to fix an issue rather then the cost from just having them on hand and in place as required. The result of falling or even jumping from 1.65m carries enough potential to put a person off work for a considerable amount of time and at a cost of hundreds of thousands. It's happened plenty of times at great expense to us taxpayers, it will happen plenty of times in the future, The fix is almost nothing. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1383620 | 2014-09-14 04:32:00 | Holy sabbatical ! No Hi viz vest ? What were they thinking? Lucky the crane didn't fall on them then.:horrified:banana At least if it did the bodies would be easier to find within the rubble. PPE isn't a control for safe crane operations (though trained competent operators, Plant designed, maintained and certified, and load lifting plans certainly are) |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1383621 | 2014-09-14 04:34:00 | Husband did one place by parking the ute alongside then putting his extension ladder in the back of the ute and standing on that. But the ladder was safer that way....it won't slip up against the ute tray..... amd we needed the height. Ladders are a means of gaining access, not working platforms. A platform ladder would have sorted the issue. It is 2014 after all and progress not only has been made, but will continue to be made when it comes to tools of the trade. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1383622 | 2014-09-14 05:06:00 | I don't often agree with metla but when it comes to safety i totally agree | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1383623 | 2014-09-14 05:24:00 | What's even worse is watching the block NZ Nothing I guess Gary. (Sorry :) ) Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
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