1. ACS
Monthly LPS Stats
August 2015

2. LPO’s 5 LPO’s Completed 100% DTR’s Completed 20% Job factors
RCAF#7 – Items closed on same day
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3. Hazard ID / Near Loss Reports
Consistent hazards being reported each month and closed out on the same day
Good communication to site staff and solutions found on the day
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4. Communication
Over the next few slides we are covering a number of topics please make sure you cover each item and make sure this is signed off as an agenda item on your sign off page.
Topics
New High Risk Checklist – Manuel Handling
Safety Alert - Minor Property Damage - New Zealand
Risk Tolerance #3
Reminders
Full SPSA training must be completed by 30th September 2015 and SPSA use in full from 1st October 2015
JCF must be in used from 1 January 2016
All New HRC should now be in place (1st September 2015)
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5. High Risk Checklist – Manual Handling
Last month we rolled out the new HRC’s include in the pack was a new Manual Handling Checklist it provides Guidance for lifting Heavy or Awkward Manual Lifting. It has been developed following a review of Onehunga Safe lifting incident in New Zealand to trial. Please review the checklist and have these available to all staff. Please feel free to provide feedback on the form.
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6. Safety Alert – Minor Property Damage - NZ
This is very relevant, and a lesson that we all need to take on at all levels of our organisations. Please ensure we check operation of all rental and owned equipment, to ensure its best working condition.
Staff must be effectively trained before use. Instruction manuals should be read to ensure correct operation of EWP and other equipment is clearly understood.
It is the Hirers responsibility to ensure training is provided. This cannot happen if the equipment is dropped off without the presence of the user.
Please ensure that no hire equipment is used without an effect handover taking place immediately before use.
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9. Risk Tolerance
Over the next 10 months we are going to put the safety spotlight on Risk Tolerance. Each month we will introduce a Risk Tolerance Element: 1. Overestimating Capability / Experience 2. Familiarity with the task 3. Seriousness of outcome 4. Voluntary actions and being in control 5. Personal experience with an outcome 6. Cost of non-compliance 7. Confidence in the equipment 8. Confidence in protection and rescue 9. Potential profit and gain from actions 10. Role models accepting risk
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10. Risk Tolerance Risk Tolerance Factor #3: Seriousness of the outcome
This risk tolerance factor deals with the question ... “How bad could it be?” It is based on the premise that something could go wrong but we under estimate or discount how bad or serious the outcome could be. We may believe a ‘scratch’ or ‘bruise’ could be the worst thing to happen where in fact it could actually be an amputation or broken bone.
“How bad could it be?”
When we believe that the outcome of our actions will not be serious, we are prepared to accept more risk. If we believe the outcome to be serious, risk tolerance goes down. When the question “How bad could it be?” is asked, the true consequences may not be realised due to a couple of factors. It may be because there have been similar incidents in the past but the resulting damages have always been minor (RCAF#4).
The second aspect of this factor is the language we use that may trivialise how serious a consequence could actually be. Does a ‘pinch point’ sound serious? What about ‘sweet gas’? ‘Hot water’?
Here are three common examples of where our language does not represent the true seriousness of the risk. The phrase ‘pinch points’ is commonly used throughout our industry to describe situations where a persons hand or body could become caught.
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11. Risk Tolerance Pinch Point Sweet Gas Hot Water
Is a ‘pinch’ the worst that could happen or is it a ‘crush’ that will brake bones or result in an ‘amputation’
Could this ‘pinch point’ result in a fatality?
The phrase ‘pinch points’ is commonly used throughout our industry to describe situations where a person’s hand or body could become caught. The word ‘pinch’ does not represent how serious this could be. Workers have had hands and fingers amputated in ‘pinch points’. Bones have been crushed beyond repair in ‘pinch points’. And yes, workers have been fatally injured when caught in ‘pinch points’
Sweet Gas
Is it really ‘sweet’ or should we refer to it as ‘explosive’ or ‘flammable’  
Similarly, we discount the seriousness of the explosive and flammable nature of Fuels and LPG when we refer to it as ‘sweet’. That word implies it is harmless
Hot Water
Is it just ‘hot’ like a Jacuzzi or hot tub or is it ‘scalding’ hot like condensed steam?
Most people view ‘hot water’ at the temperature at which it may come out of a domestic tap. A ‘hot’ shower or a ‘hot’ tub can be viewed as relaxing. Yet in our work place we have condensed steam in the 99 C range. This is not ‘hot’ like we are used to at home. This is ‘hot’ that will result in third degree burns with as little as 3 seconds contact with the skin.
The strategies for addressing risk tolerance due to not understanding the seriousness of the outcome focus on using our company and industry experience to demonstrate how serious the consequences could be and to change our language so that we do not ‘sugar coat’ the consequences.
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12. Follow up
Share this deck at your next H&S Meeting by 30th September 2015
At all branches
Compete a topics and attendance list (Attached)
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