Falls from height ……and the story continues

height_banner-780x234Thursday 27th October: A 16-year-old boy fell seven-metre at a construction site on Thursday in Canberra

Friday 28th October: A tradie in Sydney fell 10 Metres from scaffolding

My colleague Keith Jonson, an expert witness who investigates incident/ accident investigation of human factors impacting on fatalities, provided me with sad but true statistical analysis.  He constructed the mechanism of fatalities in the Australian Construction Industry covering 2003-2015.  Note that falls from height is the single biggest factor for this period.

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Please refer to Code of Practice “Managing the risk of falls at workplace code of practice” July 2015