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Text on screen: Construction Top Tips
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Text on screen: Tip #02 - Electrical safety. Common unsafe practices.
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What is it that I see? A big broad range of everything.
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I mean including guys that are using damaged equipment.
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Text on screen: Allan Mulvena, Field Inspector, Hazardous Industries, WorkSafe Victoria
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I mean they still plug it in - where they're plugging it in to the power source,
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you go - you can see that it's damaged, and you're still plugging it in
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surely you can say: "Hey listen this is damaged, don't use it."
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Other ones I've seen where the lead has cracked and you can see down to the copper and people are still using it,
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so you think, 'seriously' – just look at what you're using. You know, the stuff is damaged.
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You as the worker can have a control over your own safety, and yet you're not utilising that.
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You're putting money and time ahead of your life.
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You've got to change what you're thinking.
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Predominantly they are all simple, simple fixes.
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For people that come into contact with electricity, generally it's because something has failed.
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And one of the things that's failed is that people don't look at their equipment.
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You know they're not looking to say yes this is in good condition; there are some instances where,
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like the person that got zapped off the wire in the ceiling space,
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then that didn't need to occur if the electrical contractor had of followed through with what they should've been doing,
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which is ensuring that all the cables were terminated.
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So it wasn't the person that got the electric shock,
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you know they wouldn't have known any different, but the contractor should never have allowed that to occur.
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But quite often it is the person that's doing the job is the one that has control over their activity
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and could have and should have put in place the control to make sure they didn't get hurt.
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