Thread: Safety rep

Andy

Are you also the plant operator?

It makes it very difficult for you to observe the workers around you and simultaneously operate the plant.

Not ideal, but you also cant have a hazard wearing the safety hat as well.

Diana

P.S. I hear about safety all the time, my house mate is a safety professional who has done safety systems implementation at Qantas, Qantas link, Star Track, Caltex etc etc

Lol coming out of dark ages, short cuts, bad work practices

You realise its your workmates that are at least 50% to blame for the above statements.

Your employer obviously has no idea of their legal liability by allowing this state of affairs to continue and neither have your employees.

Ask to do some training, paid leave courses for safety reps usually about 5 days to get to know your rights, obligations and powers.

The best thing you can do is spend 5 minutes before every work starting a job and doing a risk analysis and figuring out how to perform the task with minimal or no risk of injury or death occuring for you, your fellow workers and joe public.

Same with equipment amazing how many people will use dodgey equipment needing repair or service casue they are too lazy to report it or everyone knows its faulty but if you do it this way it still works.

Good luck it can be enjoyable and rewarding can also be a bucket of worms

no one wanted to do it at our work, as they seem to think that You as the safety rep could also be 'legally liable for accidents' if you know of something and it is not acted upon and some one gets injured. Just as if you are one of the workers and you see a fellow workmate carry out an unsafe proceedure and he gets injured or killed and you don't report it you can be at blame too. So it sort of tends to become a sgt Shultz ' I see nothing , Nothing.

That last statement is incorrect - a duly elected safety rep is protected by law & specifically exempted from resonsibility.
The only way a safety rep can be prosecuted is for wilful negligence, which is extremely difficult to prove.
Safety reps need to be protected & encouraged, with out them we would be killing hundreds more people at work every year.

I wish you every success in your new endeavours.

Regards

Chuck

Hi Diana
Safety hat,the Shire dont own one
JSAs(Job Safety Anaylysis) have been in for a while but we havent had them,but just got them.At the moment the Works supervisor does them for a big jobs,the 2 grader steerers do their own daily JSA when working alone.
Big problem is nobody has seen a JSA for big jobs AND IT SPELLS OUT EXACTLY WHAT EVERY CREW MEMBER IS TO DO!!!
We have done plenty of courses over the last 12 months as far as Oc Health goes,It is all about the insurance companies prooving the worker is at fault as they have been told and should know better.
Cartm.Im booked into a 5 day oc health course.
We need to sort lots of shortcuts that were instilled into EVERYONE under previous management.
AND AS FAR AS THE LEADING HAND GOES.
Turned up drunk and under the influence of drugs tuesday morning after a BIG long weekend,had a festering SNIFF SORE one 1 nostril too.
We were told make sure he doesnt drive us to the job.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT HOME NOT LEFT TO DO TRAFFIC CONTROL!!!!
Andrew

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

AND AS FAR AS THE LEADING HAND GOES.
Turned up drunk and under the influence of drugs tuesday morning after a BIG long weekend,had a festering SNIFF SORE one 1 nostril too.

Lmao! Love it. "Nah mate, he'll be righhhht!!!"

Good on you Andrew, make it a safe one, mind you we will have to use your talents on the next trip???

Andy

Yes your right under any reasonable drug and alcohol work policy he should have been sent home for the day on return to work he should have been counselled about attending work under the influence and he should have been provided with drugs couselling.

As l said 50% of your problem will be workers and the other 50% will be you employer

Both suffer from the she be right policy