How to notify us over the holiday period.
Notifications
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work – phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away. We have staff available to respond to these 24/7.
If you’re not sure what a notifiable event is, including your obligation to hold a scene, visit What events need to be notified?
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 12pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and 8.30am on Monday 6 January 2025.
If you’re not sure if you need to notify us, use our online notification system and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Health and safety concerns
If you have a health and safety concern that isn’t urgent, use our online form and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Raise a health or safety concern
General enquiries
General enquiries made by phone or email after 12pm on Tuesday 24 December will be responded to from Monday 6 January 2025. This does not apply to notifications made by phone on 0800 030 040.
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Court Summary - at a glance
- Provide safe working procedures, including procedures requiring appropriate testing, for workers to follow when carrying out work;
- Ensure that workers have adequate knowledge and experience for the type of tests required to identify a transposition of mains;
- Provide workers with appropriate testing equipment to identify a transposition of mains, and training in how to use that testing equipment properly;
- Ensure correct procedures are in place to identify and remedy errors such as a transposition of mains.
Believing that the installation was safe to connect to the mains power supply, the electrical inspector installed the meter and inserted the fuse, which allowed electricity to flow through the circuit to the socket outlet (power plug). He completed his Record of Inspection and left the site. He did not complete a polarity test. The connected system with reversed polarity meant there was up to 230 volts of live electricity flowing through the earthing system.
On 2 October 2018 a worker ran an extension lead from the mains power to a freight container unit and received an electric shock when he touched the unit. On 3 October 2018 two other workers suffered electric shocks when they touched the unit. No-one sustained serious injuries or any identifiable ongoing health issues.
Charge two – ss 36(2) and 48 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015"
$3,000 in costs
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