Case Study on the Death of Michael Booth in a Canberra Construction Company
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Running Head: CASE STUDY1Case Study on the Death of Michael Booth in a Canberra Construction CompanyStudent NameUniversity Affiliated
CASE STUDY2IntroductionAccording to Christian and Miriam (2016), the death of a North Korean who was working at a shipyard in Gdansk region was caused by lack of necessary equipment and unsafe practices. The employee was burnt around ninety-five (95) percent and he died instantly. The question raised focuses on the responsible authorities undertaking the required steps to find out what happened under such incidence. Besides, it is evident that the employers taken accountable,and are always the victims being compensated. The main aim of this case study essay on the death of a forty-eight-year-old man one Michael Booth is to help you understand how some of these cases are always handled. It is to show you what really transpired that lead to his death at a construction firm in Canberra. How the responsible authorities handled the matter, how they should have handled it and what should have been done to avoid such an incident. Relevant LiteratureRisk management is defined as the process of identification, prioritization, as well as assessment of risks. It also involves the coordination of economic application with the aim of minimizing, monitoring, and controlling the possibility and impact of risk occurrence. In a systematic study, Michael (2017) denotes that public awareness of possible risks and hazards in the working place helps in enhancing the essentiality of safety management and assessment in the current increasingly dangerous and litigious society. In other words, there is a need of evaluating risks and safety related issues experienced in the workplace by adopting strategies that are structured and calculated. Many people have died in the construction sites over the years,most parties being either employee of the construction firm or the suppliers. In most occasions, ithas come out that most of this death is caused by the laxity of the employer to provide safety equipment required for the task, employer not providing a safe working environment according
CASE STUDY3to the established standards or lack of adequate training by the employer. This paper evaluates safety issues in reference to Canberra Construction Company.The Actual Incident that Transpired and Actions TakenAccording to Lisa (2012), Mr. Michael Booth a forty-eight-year-old was working for a company that was supplying Canberra Construction firm known as Kenoss with construction equipment. On the twenty-third day of March 2012 as he drove into the construction site, his truck came into contact with an overhead electricity line that was hanging too low and he got electrocuted in the incident. He could not see it because the area was covered with trees and since it was a windy day, obviously the construction site was full of dust (Gordon, 2015). He wasfound lying by his truck where he was rushed to the hospital and unfortunately died five days later. According to Gordon (2015), his brother confirmed that he actually died due to the effect of the electrocution and after his death, they donated his lungs and kidney to the hospital to help those who needed such kind of transplant. They did this because Michael had requested it to be done whenever he would have died. According to Michael (2017), after the death of Michael Booth, there was an attempt by Kenoss to alter his attendance record for that day to avoid any investigation that would have beenconducted but they did not manage to successfully do so. At the same time, the company was going into liquidation and was dealing with a lot in terms of clearing with creditors and other liquidation processes. Social networking sites have revolutionized that Mark McCabe an ACT SAFEWORK commissioner investigated the matter by visiting the site where the incident occurred, interviewed the employers and employees of Kenoss even though it was going on liquidation and
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