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In today’s rapidly evolving environment, where machinery and equipment play a crucial role across nearly every industry, it’s essential to consider the safe interactions between workers and the equipment they operate or work alongside. Ensuring the safe use and functionality…

Media release from Worksafe regarding the scaffolder that lost both his arms from an electric shock while working near power lines. There was a Close Approach Consent and permit in place for the works that the scaffolders installing the structure…

The recent media release from Worksafe around the sad death of a 23-year-old apprentice diesel mechanic in North Canterbury back in 2022 detailing how the trainee fitter was tasked to carry out repairs to a loader that involved working to…

Worksites are a big temptation for most children, and I speak from experience when as a youngster, I would regularly climb through, under or over construction site fences to climb the nearest scaffold or attempt to drive the machinery. It’s…

With the recent high winds we have seen in Auckland, there have been a number of incidentsinvolving structures being turned over, panelled materials sent airborne, Portaloo’s andmobile scaffolds toppled. Below is an example of an incident in West Auckland on…

An industrial door company in Scotland was recently fined £165,000 following an accident that led to the death of one of their employees after his hoodie top became entangled in the mechanism of a roller door he was servicing and…