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Identifying hazards and putting in safety controls on your worksite may feel like trying to solve a complex puzzle — with moving parts. But we’ve developed an easy-to-use tool that can help employers put the pieces together.
As WorkSafeBC’s occupational safety officer Shane Campbell explains, our fillable template helps you to identify where mobile equipment operates near workers, and then assess and control the risks.
“The real challenges for employers are to pinpoint the risks on busy, changing worksites, understand those risks, and then put in place ways to manage them,” Campbell says. “The template helps guide you through that process.”
The template includes space to draw your worksite’s layout. Use it to show buildings, foot traffic areas, mobile equipment traffic routes, loading zones, etc. Then, circle every location where mobile equipment operates near workers on foot.
Make sure to include locations where:
For each location you circled, use the template to:
As you complete these steps, engage your workers in this process. They can offer valuable input on preventing struck-by incidents.
Next, identify controls to eliminate or minimize risks you’ve identified, and enter them on the template.
The most effective way to control these risks is to eliminate interactions between mobile equipment and workers. If you can’t eliminate all interactions, minimize the risk by using several types of controls that overlap and work together.
Elimination controls may include:
Engineering controls are the next most effective type of control. These are physical changes to the environment, tasks, equipment, or materials. Examples include:
Administrative controls are the next most effective after engineering controls. These are changes to the way work is done. Examples include:
Although personal protective equipment (PPE) is the last line of defence in this case, high-visibility vests can make workers more visible. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags worn by workers on foot can alert operators of mobile equipment nearby.
Next, develop and implement controls. Managing the risk of struck-by incidents is an ongoing process. You’ll need to monitor the effectiveness of your controls and make improvements where needed.
Read our feature article, Pedestrian safety around mobile equipment to learn more about the effective controls two employers have installed on their worksites to prevent struck-by incidents.
Source: WorkSafeBC March 2026
A south-western New South Wales juice company and its owner have been fined nearly $250,000 after an employee was hit by a reversing forklift.
The incident in November 2022 was the third involving a forklift at Griffith's Real Juice Company and resulted in Grace Poletta, a quality assurance officer, having all the toes on her left foot amputated.
In the state's Industrial Relations Commission on Friday, Justice Jane Paingakulam imposed a $240,000 fine on the Real Juice Company and a $9,600 fine on its sole director and shareholder, Anthony Taliano, for breaches of the Work Health and Safety Act.
In a victim impact statement tendered to the commission, Ms Poletta said she now had trouble finding work due to her disability.
"It has also restricted my day-to-day activities … I need to elevate my leg due to the swelling and discomfort," she said.
"I can no longer run or kneel down.
"I also have ongoing sleep issues."
During an earlier sentencing hearing, the commission was told there had been another incident at the Real Juice Company involving a worker and a forklift in 2024.
It also heard that in 2012, another employee sustained serious crush injuries at the site when they were struck by a reversing forklift.
Crown prosecutor Malcolm Scott said the company's response to the 2012 incident was inadequate.
"They didn't do much following that," he told the commission.
"It wasn't until [after] the second incident that something was done."
In handing down her sentence, Justice Paingakulam said the risk of injury from a forklift was "patently obvious".
"Very little was put in place to control what was an obvious risk with potentially fatal consequences," she said.
"No training had been provided to forklift drivers who were simply told to 'drive safely' and watch out for those around them.
"The failure of Mr Taliano to ensure that there were effective control measures to eliminate or minimise the risk demonstrates a very significant absence of due diligence."
The court heard since the 2022 incident, nearly $56,000 had been spent at the site, including the development and implementation of a traffic management plan, painted line markings on the factory floor and fixed bollards and metal guardrails to separate workers from areas where machinery is operating.
The company has also engaged an external work, health and safety consultant to assist in implementing safety measures.
Justice Paingakulam also ordered the Real Juice Company to publish a notice in Griffith's Area News newspaper regarding the incident and ordered the company and Mr Taliano to pay the prosecution's costs.
Source: ABC News June 2026
Q: Hi Bob,
I have 4 employees who are coming up to the recertification date, they were trained by another IVES trainer prior whom is no longer with our company.
I wanted to make sure it was okay to re-certify them myself or if they need to start fresh going through the certification course from the beginning.
Does the re certification need to happen prior to the expiry date?
A: There are no 'grace' periods for expired operators, so do not let them expire if at all possible or you will have to repeat their initial training.
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