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Lefka
Fall from height &
GREECE Ready-mix Confined space

No way in

and that's a win

Opportunity Cost: 1,500 CHF
Daily cleaning of the RMX Timeline: 2 weeks
discharge chute involved
two workers exposed to Results
risk of falling from height • Risks of Working at
and confined space entry. Height and Confined
A safer and more efficient Space entry were
way had to be possible. permanently removed
Dimitrios Chanis • No more high risk
CEO
Solution permits nor scaffolding
• Hierarchy of Controls required
was applied by the team • Operation is now
to engineer a solution performed by a single
eliminating the hazards operator in 10 minutes
• A working platform with instead of 1.5 hours
an access ladder were • A complex high-risk daily
retrofitted providing safe, task is now a simple and
direct access to the chute safe routine
Dimitra Kasola and no longer requiring
Head of H&S
scaffolding erection nor
confined space entry

Fall from Height

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