StayLive actively promotes the sharing of information as soon as possible after near miss or actual safety incidents to inform members about hazards arising out of their operations.
1 July 2016
A contractor was working from a man bucket removing the dropper cables connecting the overhead lines down to the main unit transformer below.
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23 May 2016
There was a recent incident at one of our wind farms where a technician slipped while climbing the entrance steps to a turbine. At the time he was carrying a heavy bag of tooling by himself, weighing 52kg over his shoulder.
9 May 2016
Steel place arrived from supplier with incorrect lifting eyes fitted introducing risk of a dropped object incident.
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15 April 2016
During the fixing to a wall of an LCD screen mounting bracket, the tip of a fixing screw punctured a phase conductor of a power supply within the wall resulting in livening the wall bracket.
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10 February 2016
During normal end of day tidy up, a live cable was damaged when it was crushed between a metal hatch cover and a floor grating.
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14 December 2015
Recently in Wind, a double action hook unlocked from the dorsal attachment point on the harness when the technician was 6-7m high during height training.
2 December 2015
During working at height training, a Wind Technician was undertaking a ladder rescue approx. 6-7m up. Their dorsal double action hook managed to unlock itself from the dorsal attachment point on his harness.
27 October 2015
While driving to work in a Toyota work ute along Karori Road in Wellington, an employee lost his rear wheel which overtook him and continued on the footpath towards two pedestrians.
8 May 2015
The work party had concluded a fault-finding task on a turbine and this confirmed the 69kg motor in the nacelle required replacing.
24 January 2015
A Meridian employee got into a company vehicle to discover that the back end and seats were covered in high vis yellow spray paint.
