[Stephen Small]

Hi Nashon

We are about to release a pragmatic company standard on this (I will send it once it is finished) but the short version is as follows:

1. Work Areas = No person shall enter a work area with a drop zone or exclusion zone until they have drawn the operator’s attention to their presence and have been acknowledged.

2. Drop
Zones: suspended loads = No
one in drop zone while load is suspended

3. Drop zones: working aloft = No one in drop zone during active work. Permission from operator must be obtained before entering a drop zone if work is paused.

4. Exclusion zones = No unauthorised
person in exclusion zone, authorised persons must only remain inside the
exclusion zone for the shortest practical time to undertake their required task.

This allows for activities such as tying on/off equipment using handlines, positioning of poles into donut and use of cant-hook to align poles, etc.

Cheers

Stephen

• This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by  Stephen Small.

[craig-sutherland-2-2]

Hi, we just completed the implementation of Drop/Exclusion Zones this week.

Feel free to reach out and we can share our struggles and successes.

The business took the approach of risk assessing each scenario instead of mandating Drop/Exclusion Zones under all scenarios.

It is most definitely an unpopular topic amongst Field Teams and buy-in is crucial to implementation and making sure they apart of the process, but site audits are returning positive outcomes.

craig.sutherland@countiesenergy.co.nz