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.
14 July 2016
A contractor was in the process of attaching a new cable to an existing cable tray section in the Manapouri Communications Room.
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6 July 2016
A contractor was grinding steel in the immediate vicinity of a full bottle of methylated spirits and a rubbish bin containing paper and rags.
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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.
