ACCORDING to Active Air, air conditioning is not just about comfort, but is linked to a critical occupational health and safety issue.
10/06/2009
THE CONSTRUCTION, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has reported the tower crane collapse at BHP’s Worsley Alumina Refinery project, WA, was due to mechanical failure.
19/01/2010
WORKSAFE Victoria says it has issued three safety improvement notices at the Prahran site, after a scaffold collapse on 22 February 2009.
27/02/2009
A man has been killed after a partially-completed structure of steel beams collapsed on an Australand site in south-east Melbourne.
02/04/2008
PART of a floor of a building under construction in Canberra collapsed during a concrete pour on 27 October 2008, sending equipment and scaffolding crashing downwards.
28/10/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has placed the blame on the directors of Permanent Erection Constructions over a concrete wall collapse on 16 August 2006.
13/11/2008
WORKSAFE Victoria has established a program to cut health costs, absenteeism, injuries and disease and the risk of chronic disease in Victorian workers.
25/03/2008
M DEKKER Constructions has been fined over a collapse of a steel structure which injured three workers.
16/02/2009
A TRUCK driver was lucky to escape with his life after a 2005 crane collapse at a Point Augusta railyard.
03/06/2008
JBT Corp has been fined $60,000 over the 2007 collapse of a 7t tilt-up panel on a WA construction site.
04/03/2009
WORKCOVER NSW is investigating an incident in which a man was crushed at a Bundeena construction site after formwork collapsed on top of him.
15/08/2008
TWO Gold Coast construction workers plunged to their deaths on 22 June 2008 when the scaffolding they were on collapsed.
24/06/2008
VISY Paper has been fined $140,000 after a boundary wall collapsed in a car park in south Sydney, narrowly missing a woman and her son.
19/11/2008
TWO ADELAIDE contractors have been fined a total of more than $60,000 after a trench collapse left a young plumber with severe and permanent brain injuries.
28/08/2009
WORKCOVER NSW has reminded operators of earthmoving equipment to follow adequate safety precautions when working near excavation sites, after a labourer was hurt by a skid steer excavator.
19/06/2008
BRISBANE’s central business district was the scene of a partial crane collapse in the early hours of 15 April 2008.
15/04/2008
THE DRIVER of an 80t mobile crane at Brisbane walked away from its collapse after jumping clear of the cabin.
15/07/2008
WORKCOVER NSW has responded to the scaffold collapse fatalities of two workers by reminding the construction industry to follow safety precautions when working with scaffolding.
27/06/2008
A CONSTRUCTION worker died on 15 October 2009 after being struck on the head by a concrete pump hose at the former Pentridge Prison at Coburg, Victoria.
19/10/2009
A WORKER was rescued from a septic tank on 25 October 2008 after being overcome by toxic fumes in the four-metre deep container.
27/10/2008