Safety Alerts

Safety Alert: Protecting vulnerable road users around work sites

A cyclist was fatally injured in collision with a concrete truck on a road work site. Improvements to temporary traffic management have been reviewed and published as part of an enforceable undertaking following the incident.

Safety alert - safe trenching

A worker had to use his hands and a spade to dig his workmate free from a torrent of dirt when a trench they were excavating collapsed in the Waikato backblocks, in what WorkSafe says was a preventable incident.

Safety alert: leg entrapment in hoe rotor

After completing a stabilising run of approximately 180 meters, a machine operator returned a rotary hoe to the park-up area. Once in the park-up area, the operator raised the rotor and hood and, with the rotor and hood elevated, approached the powered turning rotor and kicked at some dirt on the lower skid to clear debris from the skid.

Updated safety alert - TTM and level crossing interface

KiwiRail has updated its safety alert about the interface between temporary traffic management and level crossings, which includes examples of confusing signage approaching level crossings and guidance on temporary traffic management plans.

Safety alert: Air excavation

The operator of an AirVac system was harmed when his leg was sucked into the live unit.

Safety alert: worker injured after ingesting fuel

Auckland Transport issued a safety alert after a worker ingested an unknown quantity of unleaded fuel while priming a siphon to transfer fuel from one portable generator to another.

Safety alert: TTM and level crossing interfaces

KiwiRail has issued a safety alert about temporary traffic management interfaces with railway level crossings.