Alerts & Incidents

In an incident at the Glen Shopping Centre in Victoria in June 2018, a JLG R1932R scissor lift dropped approximately 3 metres without notice while an air con plumber was working on it. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt on this occasion. This was not an isolated incident. The CFMEU advised members

Shade cloth does a great job, however we need to make sure it complies with all Australian Standards after the dramatic fire in Sydney recently. This wasn’t the first serious incident involving this particular product, which is Dynamesh.

The Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union has called for mandatory national training on asbestos safety for all tradespeople.

It comes after the publication of a Curtin University study finding that three out of four tradespeople cannot identify asbestos in a workplace.

Two tragic wall collapse incidents occurred on Wednesday 16th August in Sydney. Both were domestic/residential housing sites and both were preventable.

With an unprecedented level of tower crane activity on Sydney’s skyline, a crane incident at the Probuild Constructions Discovery Point residential high-rise development has again focused concerns on safety standards.

A 54 year old man has tragically died after falling approxiamately 20 metres down a lift well in an incident at a Hamilton Marino site in Carlton.

The building industry is dangerous, but workplace fatalities are unacceptable.

CFMEU EBAs state that workers will stop work and leave site when the temperature reaches 35 degrees.

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We all know that coming closer to the end of the year, bosses start pushing harder to get jobs finished and corners start getting cut.

In just a 3 week period, 8 construction workers were killed in Australia just recently. Three of them in Victoria.

Wednesday 25 November 2015 was a very dark day in Western Australia with three tragic, preventable fatalities. The victims were two Irish ceiling fixers both in their 20’s and a 32 year old scaffolder.

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A 29 year old man, CFMEU Member Carlos Araujo, has died after being crushed in an incident at the Specialised Concrete Pumping company yard.

The building industry is dangerous, but workplace fatalities are unacceptable.