A roofing company has been fined for failing to have adequate scaffolding in place while their workers installed a roof.
Eden Homes Development "failed its workers" by letting two employees install a roof in Glenfield, Auckland, without adequate edge-prevention to prevent falls.
The company was convicted and fined $15,000 at the North Shore District Court after WorkSafe New Zealand brought a prosecution against it for failing to ensure it had adequate measures in place to protect its workers from the risk of falling from a second-story roof.
WorkSafe NZ said scaffolding at the site was incomplete and provided protection only for the first level of the construction site.
The homeowner had arranged the scaffolding but WorkSafe NZ chief executive Keith Stewart said Eden Homes Development should have not allowed work to commence until the scaffolding was complete and adequate.