Brian Miller Presented With Lifetime Achievement Award

CFMEU Safety Coordinator Brian Miller has been presented with a lifetime achievement award for his 46 years of outstanding contribution to occupational health and safety.

Brian Miller accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award.

Accepting the award at the Labor Council of NSW's Delegates' Safety Conference, Brian 'Mother' Miller is credited as being one of the most active and well respected campaigners for workplace safety in the union movement.

After joining the BWIU in 1956 it took Brian only two years to find make it to the frontline of workplace activism, where he participated in his first big strike at McDonald's Construction paper mills in Matraville.

It was during this action that Brian helped form a strike committee that worked out teams to go onto various fixed establishments as well as building sites.

Over the years Brian has played an integral role in securing portable long service leave entitlements, accident pay and safe workplaces, and has shared his vast knowledge of workplace safety issues with many others. His role has also seen him tirelessly investigate incidents leading to workplace deaths.

He provided immense support to the family of young apprentice builder Dean McGoldrick who was killed on an unsafe building site last year and has played major roles assisting volunteers and victims of natural disasters, including Cyclone Tracy, the Nyngan floods and Sutherland Shire bushfires.

It is a testimony to his popularity that when Brian was recently in hospital a construction site next door displayed a banner in full view of his window, reading 'Get Well Mother Miller'.

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