August 2014 Meeting

01/10/2014 by wsgadmin

A tour and presentation was held at the Flemington race course. It also included discussion around the management of contractors.

Apartment developer fined $80,000 for unsafe worksites
A residential apartment developer has been fined $80,000 after WorkSafe inspectors detected multiple safety breaches at two construction sites in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
Company, director fined after fall death
A shopfitting company has today been convicted and fined $300,000 after an employee died when he fell more than two metres from an unguarded mezzanine floor at a worksite at Maidstone in Melbourne’s west.
Man dies in forklift incident
A man in his late 40s died after he was crushed by a forklift load that slipped from its tynes at a machinery depot at Somerton, in Melbourne’s north, on Saturday morning.