The Daily Dose #345 | Sacked Before the Ambulance Arrived: Carrick from HazardCo on What Site Safety Really Costs

At 23, Carrick was installing aerials when the ladder slipped out from under him. He fell two storeys onto a concrete driveway, broke vertebrae in his back and his wrist, and lost his job before the ambulance had picked him up off the ground. Six months off work. His mum washing him in the shower. Two decades on, that fall is why he does what he does.

Now National Enterprise Manager at HazardCo, Carrick joins Az for what Az calls the darkest episode The Good Builder has recorded, and one of the most important.

They get into:

- Why the real damage of an incident is what comes after it, for families, crews and builders, sometimes for decades

- Psychosocial risk, the safety category most builders haven't heard of yet, and why it's on its way to being mandated

- Why leadership, not paperwork, is what actually makes a site safe

- Toolbox talks done in minutes: take a photo, turn on voice to text, done

- Az's own near miss, one step from a dropped crane load

National Safety Month runs in October, and HazardCo will be right in the middle of it. Az's challenge to every builder listening: if you trust what we tell you, do something about your safety this month.

HazardCo's details are in the links below.

We work in an industry where bad luck doesn't pay off well. Everyone should go home safe at the end of the day.

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