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Height Safety Engineers are your partners in protecting people. We offer holistic safety solutions. Our safety advice is independent, thorough and unbiased.

For nearly two decades, HSE has provided industry best practice safety system design, installation and maintenance. As a registered training organisation (RTO 91227) we offer a broad scope of nationally accredited training courses. The team at HSE combines years of industry experience delivering tailored solutions giving you peace of mind.

13/10/2026

A cover over a hole can look like the risk has been dealt with. Sometimes it's the risk.

In a recent NSW prosecution, a worker on a school roof stepped onto a plywood cover over a removed skylight and fell 2.9 metres. The cover wasn't fixed, couldn't take their weight, and was smaller than the opening it was meant to protect.

The court found a chain of failures behind it — the cover, the SWMS, and an induction that never happened.

Our latest post breaks down what went wrong and what a cover actually needs to be before anyone relies on it.

https://heightsafety.net/news/covered-not-protected-what-a-fall-through-a-penetration-shows/

11/10/2026

Every day, more than 400 serious workers' compensation claims are lodged across Australia. On average, 21 of those relate to falls from height.

For week two of National Safe Work Month, we're looking at how safety systems that are compliant and actually followed protect the health of workers.

The effects of a workplace accident can last well beyond the moment. Physical injuries that never fully heal. Psychological issues that come from the trauma of what happened. They seep into every part of someone's life – their family, their hobbies, their work.

Good safety systems work for health. Not just at work, but across every part of a worker's life.

07/10/2026

Solar panels do a lot of work on a roof. They also need someone to get up there and look after them.

During a refurbishment at a Hunter Valley TAFE campus, solar went in across a new building and the existing ones, so maintenance crews needed safe, permanent access to every array.

We installed 110m of walkway and 60m of guardrail to get workers to the panels, anchor points for edge and gutter access, and ladder brackets to get onto each roof in the first place.

Planning solar? Plan the access at the same time.

07/10/2026

Five projects, one month, under two minutes.

A slate-roofed church bell tower in Surry Hills. An indoor ceiling hatch at a Taren Point hardware supplier. A solar walkway at a Hunter Valley TAFE campus. Anchors on a school reroof in south-west Sydney. A 7m ladder at a Central West sports centre.

No two jobs looked the same. But every one means someone can do their work at height and go home safe.

04/10/2026

In 2024, 188 people lost their lives at work. That's one death every two days. One family changed forever, every two days.

This week, National Safe Work Month is focused on "for life" and why workplace health and safety matters. The answer should be clear: every worker's life is worth protecting.

Of those 188 deaths, 24 involved a fall from height. That's one death every other week – a toll that has barely shifted in 15 years.

Protecting people takes more than ticking a box and getting on with the job. This week, take a moment to ask who your safety systems actually exist to protect.

30/09/2026

October marks the start of Safe Work Australia's National Safe Work Month, and this year's theme is "safe work is for life".

The month is all about raising awareness of why building and maintaining safe workplaces matters. Over the next four weeks, we'll be joining Safe Work Australia in looking at how safe work is for life, for health, for the future and for all.

It's a good time to stop and take stock of how safety is managed where you work. But the real work of protecting people happens on every job, every day.

29/09/2026

Duties don't disappear just because there's another link in the chain.

On a multi-contractor site, responsibility is shared, not transferred. Principal contractors provide a safe place of work, contractors and subcontractors are responsible for safe systems of work, and workers need the skills to follow them.

Full breakdown: https://heightsafety.net/news/whs-duties-in-a-contractual-chain/

28/09/2026

Same near miss. Two very different outcomes.

Report it, and the pattern shows up before it becomes a problem — equipment gaps, training gaps, procedural gaps, all identified and addressed. Don't report it, and it just gets filed away as "business as usual" — until the risk compounds into something worse.

23/09/2026

Is your near-miss data giving you the full picture?

Under-reporting doesn't just hide individual incidents — it builds a false picture of how safe your workplace actually is. Poor culture, no easy reporting mechanism, a "no one got hurt" attitude — the gaps compound quietly until they don't.

Read the full article → https://heightsafety.net/news/what-is-your-near-miss-data-telling-you/

20/09/2026

A compliance inspection is only useful if you act on what it finds.

At an apartment building in Pyrmont, an inspection turned up a static line past its 10-year service life — replaced with surface-mounted abseil anchors due to the roof's pitch. Existing abseil anchors in the concrete parapet lacked identification marks confirming they were fit for use, so those were swapped out too. Access ladders were also added to safely reach different areas of the roof.

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