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.
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.
26 September 2014
A contractor to Meridian was tasked with performing scheduled work in WWD510. During the work they observed that a large number of oily rags had been used to soak up old oil around the hydraulic station and then left in situ.
11 September 2014
There was a significant near miss recorded on a Suzlon site in Sth Australia where a technician who was setting up the Sky Climber (fore blade inspections and repair works) dropped the pin out of the shackle after cutting the hole in the fiberglass from 80m.
21 August 2014
During a major component change, a 14.5tn gearbox became snagged and moved uncontrolled which lead to substantial bruising to the lift supervisor/dogman's arm.
