Council prosecuted after worker's near-death fall

[mike83]

good thread. recently got a mewp ticket and only got a dozen or so dismantles, pollards under my belt so good to see some good tips etc..

slight derail, so say you get a mewp on hire n it comes with 18" ish square resin pads on soft stuff what do you fellas use under or instead of.

cheers

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I have attempted to explain this very conundrum to our current H & S guy.

Once everything becomes a proscribed procedure.

(Which they seem to think is how all work should be conducted.)

Following written risk assessments and safe methods of work.

No one has cause to think any more.

That has been done for them.

This process may well work in a production line sceanario, on unchanging terrain.

But not in the real world, with a multiplicty of changing conditions and circumstances.

One can however work safely in a potentially hazardous situation.

As long as one identifies the potential hazards, and makes due allowance to mitigate the harmful outcome.

"THINK"

 

That's it! That's what I (rather poorly) meant to say!

 

We're all DOOMED when "the procedure", blindly applied, takes precedence over observation, consideration, decision, revision and implementation!

 

DOOMED I SAY!!!

[stephen james butler]

Fortunate no one died, and thoughts with the injured, wishing him a speedy recovery.

[Dean Lofthouse]

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good thread. recently got a mewp ticket and only got a dozen or so dismantles, pollards under my belt so good to see some good tips etc..

slight derail, so say you get a mewp on hire n it comes with 18" ish square resin pads on soft stuff what do you fellas use under or instead of.

cheers

 

I have some big blocks of wood around 2ft x 1 ft x 3" thick, you can put two side by side and another on top cross ways if you have extra soft ground but one is normally enough. You can just see them on the photo below which was on Tarmac, but in this case they were used to provide friction to stop the mewp sliding down the hill....note how steep it is

[Jesse]

Not sure if anyone's already posted this (apologies if so), but something to be aware of in this increasing wet and rainy country of ours......

 

Council prosecuted after worker's near-death fall

 

Good, ....thats the council being prosecuted .

[skyhuck]

[Dean Lofthouse]

 

Where there's blame Huck....

 

Whatever he did the council would have been at fault

[Dan Lacey]

The bit I don't understand is how one of the legs slipped off one of the pads???

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

The bit I don't understand is how one of the legs slipped off one of the pads???

 

 

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It can be that if you haven't got even pressure on all four legs or you are working full out on one side, the opposite or light side leg/legs can move a bit and jiggle off the pad.

If it isn't a self levelling system you should always lower or operate two legs together so pressure equalises in those two legs

Edited July 4, 2013 by Dean Lofthouse

[Peter]

Or if the pad was n soft ground, as the boom slewed round the loading pressed it into the ground, once the pressure was released it would easily slide off.