TOPIC 3 - Highly Commended
The safety, health, and wellbeing of mobile plant maintenance workers involves potential exposure and interaction with 5 elements of the fatal 6.
- Contact with moving machinery and isolation.
- Workplace transport and pedestrian interface.
- Work at height.
- Exposure to workplace respirable crystalline silica.
- Struck by moving or falling object.
On the site at Hyndford Quarry, there have been 2 instances of serious injury and asset damage relating to contact with moving machinery, both of which occurred in 2022.
As part of the root cause investigation, the layout, environmental and ground conditions of the mobile plant maintenance area, were concluded to have contributed to the root causes, and the potential consequences could have been far more severe.
Following a review of the working area, the issues identified were lack of one-way system, inclined sections of maintenance area, soft, muddy ground and exposure to the elements causing distraction and slippery conditions.
Please see additional pdf for details of the design process