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Company Loses Appeal
After employee electrocuted
Appeal against $50,000 fine lost
Regional
Victoria's largest consulting, engineering and surveying company lost an appeal against
a $50,000 fine in the Ballarat County Court last week. TBM Group Pty Ltd
received the fine last year after pleading guilty to failing to provide
instruction, information, training and supervision to workers so that they could
safely perform their work. The company was charged after a worker, a civil
engineer who had worked for the company for two years, was electrocuted and
sustained serious burns requiring 11 skin grafts to his hands and feet. While
the TGM health and safety manual identified overhead power-lines as a hazard,
the injured worker had never actually seen the manual. Source: The Ballarat
Courier.
So please, always ensure your employees receive appropriate training and safety
briefings for the work they are required to do.
Source: OH Reps @ Work, SafetyNet Journal: Issue 42, 15th April 2004
(http://www.ohsrep.org.au/safetynet-journal/safetynet-journal-archive/safetynet-journal-issue-42/index.cfm)
Special thanks to Chris of The Gap, Queensland for alerting us to this
article.
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