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Court Summary - at a glance
• Reg 16 charge withdrawn
- Ensure that redundant electrical cables are disconnected, traced back and completely removed where possible. If not possible, they should be terminated, isolated from unintended contact and clearly labelled;
- Ensure that redundant switches are either disconnected and either removed; or if not possible locked out and tagged ‘out of service’;
- Undertake both routine electrical audits and periodic verification inspections and testing of electrical installations as currently detailed in Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3019:2007 “Electrical installations – Periodic verification”;
- Follow established industry best practice for locking out, tagging and securing switchboards, switchgear and switchboard rooms;
- Ensure that schematics of electrical installations are kept up to date and the plant routinely checked against these records;
- Ensure that maintenance log books are kept up to date and modifications to electrical installations are documented;
- Ensure that Job Safety Analysis and task instructions are in place for cleaning tasks; and
- Ensure that employees are adequately trained in working around electrical installations.
Approximately 10 years before the incident, electrical works were carried out in one of the Fairton plant’s switchboard rooms. During this, a redundant electrical cable was partially removed, by cutting it off at floor level, leaving its inner wiring exposed and unprotected, facing upwards in the room’s concrete floor.
The other end of the same cable remained connected to another of the plants switchboards, so that that cable was left live, carrying a 400 volt three phase supply.
On the day of the incident, the victim, an employee of the Defendant, was carrying out cleaning work in the switchboard room. When the victim bent down to use a small hearth brush to clean the area around the exposed live cable, he made contact with the cable and an electrical flashover occurred.
The victim was knocked over by the force of the explosion and sustained burns to his face and both hands.
• Regulation 16 of the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010
• Reg 16 charge withdrawn
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