somme

Hi Guys, OH a sparky in the UK but while he is doing the correspondance course with peers he is working for a pool company. He was in the workshop the other day testing motors and got a belt from something they had piggy backed on to the motor. HE is OK, took him to the hospital to get checked out, BUT he has not had it put in the accident book and not got paid for the time he had to go to the hospital or the afternoon the doctor said he could not go back to work. He did get a certificate from the hospital to say he could not return til the following day. I just feel they are taking the P, cause he is an immigrant :curse:. Any info would be appreciated.

The_Pom_From_Aus

somme;
what the company has done is Illegal to say the least they Must record it in the accident book its as simple as that, phone work safe tell them you watch them jump on them especially if a person has received an electric shock of any nature

somme

Thanks for the quick reply, thought that might be the case but being new needed to be reasurred. Thanks

steve`o

what they have done is well out of order, they should have reported the incident to energex ( electrical entity ) not having doen so leaves them open to huge fines and possible cancellation of their contractors licence

personally i`d report them
you really dont want t be working for some one who values your life so cheaply

http://www.deir.qld.gov.au/electrica...ncident/about/

my opinion

regards steve

somme

Thanks Steve, Dave got them to write it in the accident book and they paid him but don't think they informed anyone.

He is now looking for a new job.

Brigall

He needs to check that the relavant bodies have been informed. Mate got a shock attended hospital but did not report the incident nor did his company. However in W.A. the hospital reports the incident as well. 4 weeks later Danny got a call from Energy safety followed by further interview's as did the company he worked for Danny got $1000 fine the company $5000 AS THEY BOTH knew any electric shock incident in WA is to be reported.

somme

Thanks for that I will pass it on, didn't know shocks had to be reported by the employee Who do you report it too ?

Brigall

In W.A. your employer should report the incident to the department of Energy. They will contact all the other departments who will in turn interview yourself and the employer.

youngy73

should your other half have been working on the motor without a licence. i doubt a pool company would be a registered electrical contractor and therefore who was supervising him?

andicee

Queensland law

Code of practice, Electrical Safety Act 2002, section 196 - employer or self-employed person to advise chief executive of serious electrical incident or dangerous electrical event. Written notice must be given on the approved form within 24 hours of the happening of the incident or event.

Maximum penalty - 40 penalty units.

That's approx a $2 grand fine and they WILL come and audit the company and they WILL find lots of other little misdemeanours. Each will attract another fine or they'll issue improvement notices. Either way, the company will be in their sights and they WILL catch it one way or the other.

Andy

somme

AS ONLY SPARKIE IN THE COMPANY NO ONE THEY HAVE AN EXCEMPTION FOR WORK SHOP SO THEY SAY

Different rules seem to apply to pool companies some sort of excemption if work done in the workshop

andicee

No-one who is not qualified is allowed to do electrical work unsupervised.

I can find nothing to suggest that they are "outside of the law," which seems to be what they are implying. If anything, the ESO (electrical safety office) are coming down on these type of companies, i.e. pool companies, air-con firms, that do electrical work, but up until a couple of years ago didn't have qualified sparkies working for them. This is from the horses mouth, so to speak. Ring the ESO and I guarantee that they'll be there and read them the riot act.

I'm sure that you are familiar with the ESO website. This is all about incident notification

http://tinyurl.com/6dyazg

And here's the numbers to ring

Electrical safety infoline:
1300 650 662

Workplace health and safety infoline:
1300 369 915

If anything, you owe it to the next person who may not be so lucky next time

youngy73

no need to shout. i posted as i think you need to be aware that by working unsupervised this can affect you getting a licence. Be careful, you may have opened a can of worms with all the relevant authorities. you are working illegally.

The_Pom_From_Aus

youngy73;

well said mate, thats the bottom line if people on here dont want to accept assistance or reality then F**K them

art

somme

Sorry youngy73 wasn't shouting something wrong with my laptop and goes into caps for no reason, should have explained when posted Works fine for a while then goes to caps for a while. Really do appreciate your imput and couldn't agree with you all more. Thanks everyone.