Examples of LifeSaving Rules

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Examples ofLife-Saving Rules being
broken... and the results
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LTI 15 April 2006
Standing too close to a lifting operation
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Fatality 3 LTIs 2 May 2006
Rollover - Speeding - No seatbelt - No Journey
Management Plan - Night Driving
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Potential Fatality 26 Sept 2006

• No PTW
• No gas test
• No confined space entry permit or control

Man entered large empty water tank
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2 LTIs Potential Multiple Fatalities 12 Oct
2006
No Permit to Work Welding without a gas test on a
mud-tank Fire touched two persons working at a
lower level
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Fatality 23 October 2006
Rollover - Speeding - No seatbelt
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Potential Fatality 18 June 2007

Mud agitator started with two men working inside
the mud-tank - No PTW - No lock-out/tag
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3 LTIs Potential Multiple Fatalities 21 March
2008
No Journey Management Plan Driver
tired Speeding Seatbelts saved three lives
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Potential Fatality 20 April 2008
Welder entered large-diameter pipe to check the
root of his weld - No PTW - No gas test (welding
with argon gas!) - No confines space entry permit
or controls
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2 LTIs Potential Multiple Fatalities 20 April
2008
Alcohol Speeding No seatbelts
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Fatality 21 May 2008
Rollover - Speeding - No seatbelt
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LTI June 2008
Foot under suspended load
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LTI Potential Fatality 16 Aug 2008
No Permit to Work No fall arrestor
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LTI Potential Multiple Fatalities 1 November
2008

• No Journey Management Plan
• - Night driving

• Speeding
• - No seatbelts

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Potential Fatality 20 April 2009
Six men in the pipe-rack installing a cable -
all working on or close to the edge - each has a
full-body harness - but a few did not attach the
lanyard - lanyard not attached no fall
protection