Monthly Archives: June 2013

The Age reports today – Builder Fined over Fatal Fall – that the builder Hansen Yuncken has been fined $475,000 after pleading guilty in the Victorian County Court. The judgement does not appear to be on the austlii website for confirmation. … Continue reading →

What are the relative dangers of these things? Hours of exposure per fatality: Driving a car: 7,100,000 hours Walking on stairs: 714,000 hours Going to hospital: 60,000 hours Smoking: 60,000 hours Skydiving: 16,000 hours * Driving based on the calculations … Continue reading →

Dumb ways to die, and other motivational campaigns, are based on a belief that accidents are caused by faulty personal behavior and characteristics; naughty people.  This leads to advertising in order to convince people to self-correct their naughty behavior. However … Continue reading →

The Australian non-revolution in safety laws Australia has been undergoing a non-revolution in safety law over the past few years.  It has occupied vast resources of the commonwealth and state governments and industry alike.  For what actual purpose?  Possibly very … Continue reading →

I ran across this….http://www.workcover.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/newsroom/Pages/illawarra-biggest-construction-project.aspx Where is the developer and designer in the mix?  Where is the upstream planning? Why highlight the constructor?  What message does this send to other constructors?? Interestingly, it says that “WorkCover acknowledges that those dealing with … Continue reading →