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Yossi Berger National H&S Co-ordinator Australian Workers’ Union October 2012

Quad bikes : prone to rollover or prone to misuse?. Yossi Berger National H&S Co-ordinator Australian Workers’ Union October 2012. The advice given. Training personal responsibility

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Yossi Berger National H&S Co-ordinator Australian Workers’ Union October 2012

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  1. Quad bikes: prone to rollover • or • prone to misuse? Yossi Berger National H&S Co-ordinator Australian Workers’ Union October 2012

  2. The advice given • Training • personal responsibility • Free choice • task sensitive • ‘having the bubble’

  3. “Having the bubble"Quad bike rider Being able to construct and maintain a cognitive map that allows the rider to integrate such diverse inputs as: • Task status and requirements, • Changing information that flows from environment in motion , • real-time, present status , • performance of various sounds, traction, friction… • One’s own performance, pressures and limitations, • The fact that the ‘dog has just died’ into a single picture of the task’s overall situation and operational status.

  4. ‘Misusers’ and personal responsibility • Know and understand. • Free to choose (must be aware of options). • Therefore, any incident is result of own choice and behaviour.

  5. Some principles • Other people’s children, 4-60 • Precautionary principle • Pre-empting catastrophes, (or more of them) • Often arguing by analogy/or abductive reasoning • Dealing with gaps/chasms in knowledge

  6. Crossing the chasm

  7. Some H&S actions by the AWU • Restricted use of tractors, conveyor belts, crushers, explosives, dangerous chemicals (cyanide, benzene, parathion ethyl),areas with asbestos, areas with synthetic mineral fibres, areas with lead exposure.…. • 2011 banned using quad bikes without CPDs.

  8. Rider active Mars rovers??

  9. Summary • Do not accept that quad bikes-in-use are stable machines. • Do not accept that the appeal to personal responsibility and free choice in this issue is genuine or relevant. • Do not accept that ‘rider active’ style is a fair or viable safety strategy. • Do not accept the industry’s interpretations of research about CPDs. • AND….. Do not believe that matters of stability, children and passengers will be fixed in less than 10 years. • I do not accept that I must wait for everyone to agree before making some judgements.

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