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Text on screen: Construction Top Tips
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Text on screen: Tip #04 Electrical safety. Who is responsible for safety on site?
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Safety on site is a joint effort.
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It's never a single solitary person; it's everybody works together to achieve one aim and that one aim is for you to go home.
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Text on screen: Allan Mulvena, Field Inspector, Hazardous Industries, WorkSafe Victoria
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That's all it's got to be.
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The more that you think about safety, the more that you apply safety,
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the more likelihood it is that you're going to stop and ask questions if there's a doubt and you get to go home.
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So, starting from the principal contractor on site, to the sub-contractor to the employee – they all have various roles
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they've all got different aspects they need to think of, but at the end of it, it's all about can you go home – can you go home safely.
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So whether it be working in and around electricity, whether it be working at heights – whatever it is that you're going to do
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if there is any doubt at all, if you think, "hey, this doesn't look right, doesn't feel right, it doesn't smell right" then ask questions.
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Stop. Have somebody look at it and then when you're satisfied, get them to show you – yes, this is right – then you can proceed.
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Because it's the people that don't stop and ask questions are quite often the ones that get hurt.
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Because they aren't considering their own safety.
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Text on screen: Victorian State Government logo and WorkSafe Victoria logo