A guide for hydrometric and climate station safety inspections

NIWA staff regularly take measurements at several hundred sites with a range of structures and installed equipment around New Zealand. Typically, these are hydrometric stations with small or large structures on streams and rivers, and climate stations with instruments on the ground or on masts. However there is also a range of other installations for various purposes. Some stations are owned by NIWA and some by our clients. Mostly we do not have any ownership or legal title but they are essentially under NIWA’s control from a workplace and safety responsibility perspective. (A few, such as sites on energy company property, are controlled by those companies and we often need express authorisation to enter the workplace.) This report provides a guide for hydrodynamic and climate station safety inspections for NIWA staff. Guidelines to prepare for inspection of a site. Guide to the checklist (the form): 1 Access 2 General 3 Mains power supply 4 Riverbank access 5 Structures 6 Ladders 7 Cableway 8 Across-river cables The appendices contain The Inspection Form, Identification of steel I-beam sizes and photographic examples of faults.
 
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Colin Grace (NIWA). .
 

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2015-06-12T04:27:00
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2015-06-12T04:27:00
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The sites under NIWA’s control require regular inspections by a trained person to ensure that they are safe for NIWA staff, any other workers or the general public to enter and carry out whatever they might reasonably be expected to do. This document is a guide on how to carry out such inspections, at least to the point that a qualified engineer should take over responsibility. The process outlined here is summarised on the form in Appendix A, and this guide should be used in conjunction with it. It is preferable that these inspections are done by a different person each time, as much as is practicable. For sites with significant heights (above 1.8m) and/or risks, this is especially important. Inspections require photographs to be taken. These photos and the completed inspection form in Appendix A are documented in a report prepared for each site inspection, titled “Site safety inspection report, [Site Name], [Inspection Date]”. An internal template exists for these reports. 
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Fenwick, J., Grace, C. (2015). Site safety inspection guidelines: A guide for hydrometric and climate station safety inspections. January 2015. NIWA Client Report No: CHC2015-009. NIWA Project: Internal. p. 15 + appendices. 
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2015-01-01T00:00:002015-01-31T00:00:00 
  • Guidelines, site safety, inspection, hydrometric stations, climate stations
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Fenwick, J., Grace, C. (2015). Site safety inspection guidelines: A guide for hydrometric and climate station safety inspections. January 2015. NIWA Client Report No: CHC2015-009. NIWA Project: Internal. p. 15 + appendices. 
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