Work Place Safety: A Concern for Electrical Engineers at InstaPower

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Mr. Peter Ropata
The General Manager of InstaPower
27 Te Puni Street, Petone, Lower Hutt 5012 Wellington
Dear Peter
I am a Union Representative of the electrical engineers association of the InstaPower
and I am writing this mail in order to make the work place safer. As a representative
of the electrical engineers’ union, it is my primary duty to provide a safe work place
and to the electrical engineers of the organization, InstaPower and along with this I
must address all the grievances of the workers as soon as possible.
As I am very much concern about the electrical engineers and also for the reputation
of the company, I like to draw your attention on a few incidents that happened in
recent past in the work place of our organization. The electrical engineers are also
very afraid of the situation and among them a few are in very situation as well. In
recent past, we faced a few serious incidents in the work places that has created
serious threats to the engineers. Therefore, some of the incident even may cause
mortality among the workers of the electrical engineer group. As you know, a
significant numbers of workers are involved in the maintenance of the high voltage
cables in various region of New Zealand and this type of work requires high amount
of technical knowledge and simultaneously this task is very hazardous in nature as
well. In last 12 months, we have faced a number of injuries among the electrical

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engineers during their work and most of the cases the lack of properly functioned
equipment is responsible.
Main accidents:
4 months earlier, there was an incident, in which an electrical engineer was involved
in maintenance process of a high voltage cable. During this process, the worker faced
serious electrical shock as he was not using any kind of insulating gloves due to
inadequate number of gloves. Not only this, it was also reported that the worker was
not using the non-functional voltage detector equipment during the work. A voltage
detectors is capable of detecting the voltages present in the high voltage wires and
thus the worker might has the idea about the risks that is related to the high voltage
wire.
In another incident in the same month, a fall incident of an electrical engineer was
reported during the work in a significant height. During this time, the worker had a
serious fall from the ladder and had a serious head injury. In this context, it was
reported that, the worker did not use the safety helmet during this work. Hence, it can
be said that, if the electrical engineer had a safety helmet, then it might possible that
the worker might not have the head injury at all. In this case, the worker used an old
safety helmet and due to the breaking of this the worker has that injury.
The most recent incident was faced by a senior worker in the last month and it was the
most dangerous incident as well with high potentiality to cause death of that worker.
The worker had a fall from a height. However, as being a senior and sincere employee
the engineer had the safety harness and helmet. Again due to the poor quality of the
harness the worker had that fall. After this, no immediate treatment could not be
provided to the worker as there was no such life –saving kit in the work place.