The CHASNZ Energy Based Safety Guide to High Energy Hazards
The Energy Based Safety is a simple tool used to help improve hazard recognition. If you can see more hazards, then you can avoid or work safely around them. Remember a hazard is something that has the potential to hurt you. The Energy Based Safety runs through ten different categories of energy and describes potential 'high' energy hazards, direct controls, and supporting controls associated with each hazard.
A big thank you and credit goes to our good friend Dr Matt Hallowell, who led the research. Dr Hallowell heads up the Construction Safety Research Association based out of the University of Colorado in the USA and continues to ensure good, practical research is done to improve the safety of the work we do.