Congratulations to Seipp Construction for winning the 2024 Quarter 3 'Good Stuff' award. Seipp Construction have created a way to make installing sheet piles safer.
When installing sheet piles with an excavator mounted vibro-hammer, it is typical to pitch the pile using a chain looped through a hole cut into the pile. However, this does not provide a secondary means of preventing sheet piles from falling.
Seipp use a safety strop choked around the pile (twisting it as it is looped through the strop) in order to ensure that the strop remains around the sheet pile whilst being pitched/carried. The strop is placed around the pile and twisted as it is looped through, the strop is held onto the pile with a magnet to prevent it slipping. If the pitching chain snap or the vibro hammer jaws accidently opened causing the pile to drop, then the strop will tighten and choke the pile keeping it upright and prevent it from falling over.
Thank you to the other entrants for the Quarter 3 Good Stuff Award for sharing what they are doing to make things better at work.
Nominated by Pipeline & Civil the Flo-Well Civil Ltd crew at Eastern Busway Drainage has been doing a brilliant job in understanding our H&S Standards and flawlessly implementing the controls on Site.
Each crew member takes ownership of safety and makes it a top priority while performing day-to-day activities which include high risks such as confined space entry in 6-meter-deep trenches and manholes, heavy lifting - tandem lifts, trench collapse, and fall from height etc.
Another thing that stands out is their close-knit bond and unity which has been instrumental in ensuring every team member looks out for one another, and ensuring safety protocols are being followed.
March Cato have taken the CHASNZ Energy Wheel and built a mock up of this to take around all sites to engage with the crews on critical "STCKY" risks as well as incorporating the theme of accountability by weaving in the infamous “Whose Job Is It, Anyway?” story.
They play a fun game of pulling golf balls out of a ball bag with some special balls labelled "Somebody", "Everybody", "Anybody" and "Nobody". Each person pulling a special ball either spins the Energy Wheel, describes a critical risk and/or control on site, or helps another worker identify similar. The balls get passed around so all get to take a turn with the ultimate learning that each and every worker is a Somebody.
The session is concluded with a commitment made from the crew to log observations on one or more of the topics that came up on the Energy Wheel along with photo evidence of what controls they have put in place to prevent harm on those risk topics.
Thank you to CablePrice for supporting this initiative and donating the winners trophy!