Crane Safety

Every shift in tilt-slab yards across Victoria, workers climb concrete panels to attach the lifting clutches before the crane picks them. The panels are stored on their sides, and at three to four metres off the ground, a fall is more than enough to kill someone. The floor is concrete. There is nothing for the worker to clip onto. That is working at heights, and in most facilities, nobody has named it that way. Falls from height remain Australia's second-leading cause of workplace fatalities, accounting for 13% of all deaths on the job. WorkSafe charged 67 employers with fall-related offences [...]