QR Limited

On 3 June 2006 at QR’s Rolling Stock and Component Services Group site at Redbank, an employee was kneeling on the floor sorting out bolts and nuts for the construction of electrode plates for the tank. He was working in close proximity to two electrode frames each consisting of a number of electrode posts that were standing upright in readiness for steel plates to be bolted to them. A steel plate was being moved into position by an overhead crane when the clamp holding the plate clipped the top of one of the frames causing it to fall onto another frame and both frames to fall onto the employee who sustained a fractured right ankle, fractured nose, laceration to his head and a laceration to his leg.

s24(1) and s28(1) of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995. 

Summary of undertakings:

Activities QR Limited will undertake include:

• implement third party auditing of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Management System to AS/NZS 4801:2001 no less than three times throughout the life of the undertaking with audit recommendations to be implemented
• provide a copy of the audit reports and actions the obligation holder intends taking in addressing the report recommendations to the Executive Director, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
• implement a safety culture change program called Zero Incident Process (ZIP) at QR’s RACS Redbank worksite, and
• community benefit in the form of a $30,000 donation to ‘Youngcare’ a non-profit organisation formed to assist young people with high care needs.

This undertaking has a total minimum expenditure of $166 500 (including recoverable departmental costs).

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