This programme identified 11 critical risks across our business - the risks that may cause life altering injuries or fatality. Each risk is governed by one of the Transpower General Managers who is supported by a Critical Risk Working Group who monitor control performance to identify and communicate strategies to improve controls where necessary. Activities in the field are monitored and reported by Transpower staff. The results are shared using an online tool, Safety Culture, these are then analysed and presented to the critical risk working group via bowties. Controls are presented in both simplified and semi quantitative risk analysis (SQRA) formats to provide an accurate picture of the risk.
Results are aggregated and reported monthly in the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Scorecard.
The Top 11 Critical Risks have been identified as:
Definitions:
Aerial: Craft falls & crashes or comes into contact with or is impacted by an object or person.
Confined Spaces: An enclosed, or partly enclosed, space that is not intended or designed for human occupancy
Contact with Electricity: Exposure to electricity, including live, induced or stored electrical energy.
Hazardous Substances: Any substance that is known or suspected to cause harm to health and/or the environment.
Machinery, Plant & Stored Mechanical Energy: Failure of machinery and/or plant resulting in harm includes presence of stored mechanical energy e.g. tension or pressure.
Marine & Waterways: Working in, on, around and under water; craft sinks or comes into contact with undersea power or fibre cable.
Public Safety: Harm or potential harm to a member of the public that occurs from the operation or presence of Transpower assets.
Fit for Work: A workers' inability to work safely due to physical/mental impairment and/or poor health.
Vehicles: Loss of control of, and/or contact with a vehicle, person and/or object.
Working at Height & Falling Objects: Person or object falling from one height to another. Objects include tools, equipment, vegetation/debris, and all other objects falling from height (includes structural collapse).
Working Alone: Working isolated from colleagues because of the location, time or nature of the work.