WORKING AT HEIGHTS WITHIN YOUR BREWERY

Working from heights is a major hazard that could lead to serious injury and death. Do not let a fall be the fall of your company. 

3 Alarming Statistics from Safe Work Australia  

- There has been no improvement in the number of fatalities or the fatality rate in the past eight years.

- A typical claim due to a fall from height involved 6 weeks off work and compensation paid average over $14,000 per claim.

- 21 employees every day lodge claims for a falls-related injury that required one or more weeks off work in Australia.

How could it affect your business?

Mark Thomas Withers, sole owners of MT Sheds has been handed out the largest sentence on record due to not following the workplace health and safety offence in Australia.  

Two MT Sheds worker were installing roofing on a large machinery shed, when the winds picked up and lifted a sheet the two co-workers were installing causing both of them to fall.

Jake Williams, 25, died falling an estimated 9 meters. Co-worker Fraser Pinchin, 21, resulted in numerous fractures to his pelvis, hip, wrist, and ribs, falling an estimated 7 meters.

Mark has since been jailed for eight months with a further 18 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 month and was fined a total of $605,000 to his company MT Sheds and personally fined a further $2,250.

A fall hazard is defined as being displaced from one level to another, no matter the height. Understanding the risk associated with the work is important.