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• Withdrawn (the above charge was amended to a representative charge)
• Withdrawn (the above charge was amended to a representative charge)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.
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