Court Summary - at a glance

Date of offence:
29 January 2015
 
Plea:
Guilty
 
Decision:
• Convicted
• Withdrawn (the above charge was amended to a representative charge)
 
Final decision date:
 
Fine imposed:
$33,000

Safety lessons learned:

Children

  • Ensure that the policy prohibiting children under the age of 15 from company vehicles was effectively communicated to employees;
  • Ensure that employees were reminded of the policy prohibiting children in company vehicles on a regular basis;

Chocks

  • Develop and communicate a safe work procedure for operating vehicle mounted truck loader cranes including specifying that the vehicle wheels should be chocked on sites where there was a slope. The procedure should also have specified that vehicle mounted truck loader cranes were not to be used where the gradient exceeded 5 degrees;
  • Once developed and communicated, monitor and enforce compliance with the procedure;
  • Ensure that chocks were provided to its employees to use when operating a vehicle mounted truck loader crane.