In January 2010, a high-rise apartment complex was being constructed at a site in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne

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In January 2010, a high-rise apartment complex was being constructed at a site in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne. Australian Aluminium Shopfitters Pty Ltd was engaged to undertake glazing works for the project. The company, in turn, engaged a third party to undertake the glazing at the Workplace. The third party's three employees worked exclusively for AAS and were "deemed as their employees".

On 15 January 2010, one of the deemed employees used a cantilevered mobile device with a raised platform ("the chariot"), to access high points of the building under construction. The chariot was the accused's plant. The deemed employee sustained fatal injuries when both he and the chariot fell seven storeys to the ground below. He was not using any fall protection.

For this case study you are required to identify and explain;

 

• Factors that contributed to the incident
• Relevant standards, codes, regulations and what the actual requirements of those documents were for the situation described by the case study
• The actions you would put in place in the organisation to prevent the same type of incident from occurring in the future and to meet compliance requirements