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Partnership Height Safety Tour

2009

Partnership Height Safety Tour

2009

Welcome to the Partnership Height Safety Tour for 2009Welcome to the Partnership Height Safety Tour for 2009

• Today’s Program• Rhett Brown – The Consequences of a Fall Accident• Mike Flanagan – ACC data for Height Related Accidents• Demi Naylor – the Department of Labour position on

Height Safety• Jeff Strampel – Systematic Height Safety Management

in Business from Site Safe• Questions followed by Refreshments and Networking

Session

Seminar GoalsSeminar Goals• To Understand the Human cost of Working at Height

Accidents• To Understand the Business cost of Working at

Height Accidents• To Explain your Legal Position for Working at Height• To Recognise how to Systematically Manage Height

Hazards in your Business • To Encourage Your Commitment to Planning and

Training to Prevent Working at Height Accidents

Managing Height Safety

Jeff StrampelSite Safe NZ Inc

Managing Height Safety

Jeff StrampelSite Safe NZ Inc

Business ManagementBusiness Management• All Businesses need to implement business

systems in order to remain competitive. This will include:• Financial• Human Resources• Assets and Resources• Client Services• Safety• Environment

• These systems are not mutually exclusive and should function together.

The Benefits of Health & SafetyThe Benefits of Health & Safety• Massey University and University of Auckland

“Workplace Productivity Working Group”Source: Safeguard

• Less time off resulted• Linked with Staff retention • Linked with productivity• Fewer breakages and fewer safety errors• Improved workplace relationships• H&S was the glue that held everybody together• Viable workforce is the key to sustainability and profit

The Benefits of Health & SafetyThe Benefits of Health & Safety• Our own Case Studies

• Projects finished ahead of schedule• Tendered profit margins achieved• Improved planning and reduced downtime • Safety flowed through to other things• It instilled a sense of discipline• Relationships were improved• Reduced costs of accidents• Fewer hassles

• Financial Costs of Accidents• Cost of delays when work stops

• Inefficiency due to break up of Team

• Wage payments up to 5 days

• Cost of damaged work

• Cost to repair/replace damaged tools/equipment

• Schedules and budgets not met

• Damage to the business reputation

• Loss of goodwill in the Community

• Cost of Department of Labour investigations and prosecutions

The Benefits of Health & SafetyThe Benefits of Health & Safety

The Benefits of Health & SafetyThe Benefits of Health & SafetyImproved

Productivity – Quality – Job Satisfaction – RetentionIdeas – Relationships – Lives – Profits

Safety System for BusinessSafety System for Business

Management Commitment

Employee Participation

These are the drivers

Hazard Management

Training Program

Proactive Activity

Accident Management

Emergency Management

Reactive Activity

Safety Harness The True Impact

Safety Harness The True Impact

Height Hazard ManagementHeight Hazard Management• All hazards must be managed. Working at height is

no different except that it is one of the most hazardous activities you will undertake.• Systematically identify and assess all height hazards• Use the Control Hierarchy and take All Practicable Steps

to eliminate, isolate or minimise height hazards• Monitor that controls are working• Involve Employees

• Leaving your employees to manage height hazards when they arrive on the jobsite will usually result in the least affective effective controls

Height Safety PlanningHeight Safety Planning• When planning how to manage height hazards you

can use:• Site Specific Safety Plan• Task Analysis and/or a Hazard Register• Codes of Practice and Guidelines• Operating and Assembly Instructions• Involve your workers

• Examples of hazards when working at height• Falls from heights• Falling objects• Overhead services• Structural collapse• Environmental factors

• Consider the severity of the injury and likelihood of harm

Height Hazard ManagementHeight Hazard Management

• Safety Training • Knowledge and information, formal and informal• Tell Workers about the hazards• Show them what to do to avoid harm

• Gaining Experience• Doing the job under supervision – direct and indirect

• Competence• Training plus experience – different levels• Unless ‘fully competent’ some level of supervision is

required• Need to know competence level of each Worker for each

job/task

Safety Training and CompetenceSafety Training and Competence

In SummaryIn Summary• Together we can have a positive impact on the

serious problem of working at height• What to do next?

• Register for the height safety improvement program before you leave.

• In the near future book into the Advanced Passport course and the Height & Harness course.

• Implement the Site Specific Safety Plan for your work at height.

• Send a sample of a completed plan for review.