My present company doesn't use EROAD so this is nearly 5 years ago:

We had problems with the accuracy of the posted speed limits - often EROAD would red-flag a vehicle at the same place repeatedly, but a site visit would show discrepency either with the actual posted speed, or when that speed zone started.

We also had issues with the metric regarding unproductive idling on the side of the road - in our industry it means the HIABs and EWPs are operating!

Bio-medical effects of cumulative fatigue in those on-call (especially how much thier subsequent descision making is impacted).

Chrissy
Why are you treating qualified hires any differently from those you train up?
If you are not using the same competency framework for new workers; Use your JSA/SWMS/SOP/XYZ ancronym as a basis for assessing that the worker is competent in using the tool - to your level of safety (not previous bad habits).
you will need to apportion time for a designated assessor to be on site with them.

Our workers are all EWRB qualified, but we have additional industry and company competencies they must pass before they can work unsupervised. And they all undertake refreshers every 2 years

We are the same as @Amber van Polanen - not all feet are the same fit, so we need to have options.
(due to industry rules there are some shoes/boots that are not acceptable for our use).

Safety footwear is costly to recycle (have we thought about how we sanitise them to remove biological hazards such as keratolysis, tinea, warts etc?) compared to buying new.

Hi Andy

Going back to first principles, it would depend on two factors:
1. if Covid infection is a notifiable illness as defined in Section 23 of HAWSA (which covers seriousness).
2. if the possibility of infection at the workplace is significantly higher than the possibilty of infection in the community - and how this could be proven?

S.

Our industry undertakes annual benchmarking, so far we have seen a rise in LTIFR across the board.
At present we don't know if this is because:

• Staff are distracted from their primary safety focus by covid protocols, or are mentally fatigued by the constant messaging.
• Companies have not adjusted for significantly less hours worked due to lock downs.
• Other factors.

Being that the Government 'consolidated' all test kits in the country, you might be out of luck:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/government-should-prove-it-is-telling-the-truth-about-rapid-antigen-test-supplies-says-testing-provider/YWFFY232J7XIC3RPWJIY5Y3J5U/

All suppliers I talk with have said March.

Hi Matt,
No we are not contracted to, engaged by, or working for the PCBU as we are a monopoly utility provider.(But I agree that it may be different if we were!)

We have had the same requests, however my workers are not coved by the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021, as they do not fall into this category:
7.2 Workers who carry out work where health services are provided to members of the public by 1 or more health practitioners and whose role involves being within 2 metres or less of a health practitioner or a member of the public for a period of 15 minutes or more

My concern is the scattergun effect of health providers who are sending out blanket statements without looking at the coverage.

Hi Sarah

Our industry tends to look at High Impact Low Probability (HILP) events, of which there is a wealth of literature. For high hazard industries HILP focuses on catastrophic events (multiple fatalities).

You are on the right track - I'm reassured by the fact that you have used the word realistic as in my experience HILP pushback conversations tend be dramatic and unrealistic (such as Godzilla attacks etc) or of a magnitude that would never be able to be handled by any in-house contingency planning (complete failure of regional electricity infrastructure).

Robb you absolutely nailed it with "SITE SPECIFIC"

Thanks Petra, I was responding to Michael Wilson's comment about cellphones.
We can't use cellphones due to the coverage limitations, so our remote and isolated workers have an application that works in conjunction with GPS tracking on their RT's (we have our own RT network).

@Michael Wilson
45% of our operational area is not within cellphone coverage. Maybe they are in a similar situation?

Hi Rebecca

we had our own forms, but recently changed insurer - we now use theirs (otherwise we ended up duplicating the info anyway).
You could talk to your insurer and see f they have a standard template?

"Even if the exact order of the steps doesn't have any safety implications, carrying them out in the same order every time ensures that nothing gets missed".
I agree totally - my comment above was about SOPs without safety 'why's.
The problem is those un-enlightened ones who audit (and eventually prosecute) us, seem to believe that if you don't follow an SOP sequence explicitly, then you are not doing it safely.

However, some things have to be in logical progression - in aviation one tends to rotate off the runway before raising the undercarriage!

It depends on how prescriptive the SOP is.
If you have to undertake steps in prescribed order then not following the order is a breach of the SOP (and probably unsafe). However if the order does not matter and we let workers operate safely within the SOP framework it is a different story.

I have seen many SOPs that have no safety information, only how to undertake the task!

We have submitted
At 160+ pages I doubt many workers or SMEs would actually read this.

Yes, but kajonk operators still stick their hand (or another appendage) in kajonk machines.

Robb, you are so right that this transcends SOPs, JSAs, SWMS, (insert acronym of your choice here), etc. which only deal with the how. The 'why' must be personal and authentic to the worker which is why it is magnitudes harder to establish than procedural safety (which still relies on the worker following instructions).

In my opinion we should ignore all the peripheral hazards and minimal risks, and focus on what kills or maims us, and ensure those controls are solid as as far up the hierarchical chain as possible.

I agree with Sheri;
Getting the answers correct on a multi-choice test given by their trainer, during a training session is not competent, it is trained (how many times and different ways should we test understanding?).

We should not expect truly competent people to follow a process or procedure just because 'they will be in trouble with H&S' if they don't. If we can educate them as to the 'why' when they do take process or procedure shortcuts they understand the limitations and risks of those shortcuts.

I'm lucky that my industry takes competency vs training very seriously, but we still have trainers and assessors out there who don't get it. We have deliberately made procedures less prescriptive and more about freedom to think and act within a critical risk control framework.

There are some standards that are cited by Regulations, so they do have legislative status.
However most standards are voluntarily used to demonstrate compliance or good practice (such as ISO 45001:2018).
Some industries are highly-regulated with external auditors loving standards to audit against.
I have an issue with Standards NZ as they don't keep up: for example they still list AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 as current.