A workplace incident in which a maintenance worker fell six metres and was left paraplegic has resulted in a $150,000 fine for the height safety company involved.
The company, which pleaded guilty recently in the Wynnum Magistrates Court to breaching s.32 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, installed, maintained and inspected working at height fall arrest anchorage systems.
There’s a particular challenge that comes with working at height in a premium hotel environment. The solution has to work, every single time, for years to come, and it can’t look like an afterthought bolted onto a building that guests pay quite a large amount to stay in. When fire damage compromised the rope… Read More
At Queensland’s Noosa Heads Ambulance Station, QBuild-Public Works hired RISSafety to design and implement a permanent safety system for their roof. The building required a suitable roof access solution to safely access the roof and service areas, without disturbing the station’s regular emergency operations. Since there was no roof access… Read More
The upgrade of Nowergup Depot’s Railcar Modification Shed was finished in late 2025; a project that increased maintenance capacity for Transperth services in Perth’s north. When DT Infrastructure reached the final stage of this upgrade they engaged RISSafety to design and install a roof safety system. The system would… Read More