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UnionSafe News – May 2004

27 May 2004

Welcome to the UnionSafe bulletin, keeping you informed about the hottest additions to your occupational health and safety website during April and May 2004.

  • Reps Ramp Bottom Line
  • Feds Take Axe To Safety
  • Killers on Notice
  • Worker Dies After Company "Pressure"
  • Memory Lines - A Workers Memorial
  • Howard Govt Dodges Death Law
  • Family Mourns Dead Worker

Reps Ramp Bottom Line

Union safety reps have a dramatic, positive impact on safety at work - and the more training they get, the more marked the "union safety effect" according to a report by UK safety magazine, Hazards. (21 May 2004) [READ MORE]

Feds Take Axe To Safety

Workers and bosses have joined forces to slam a move by the Federal Government to abolish a peak national workplace safety body. (21 May 2004) [READ MORE]

Killers on Notice

Bosses responsible for the deaths of employees could be charged with corporate manslaughter and made to face bereaved family members under proposed changes to NSW law. (21 May 2004) [READ MORE]

Worker Dies After Company "Pressure"

Three weeks ago Cory Bentley asked his girlfriend to marry him. Last Wednesday afternoon she joined friends, family and workmates to say good bye at a Memorial Service that shut down Pt Hedland. (13 May 2004) [READ MORE]

Memory Lines - A Workers Memorial

The NSW Union movement has unveiled a spectacular sculpture in memory of workers who had lost their lives at work and for those who had died as a result of a workplace illness. (6 May 2004) [READ MORE]

Howard Govt Dodges Death Law

The Federal Government is moving to dodge the ACT's Industrial manslaughter laws in a move slammed by the ACTU as "immoral". (2 April 2004) [READ MORE]

Family Mourns Dead Worker

"Life is priceless,' says Sun Winson Chai, whose father died after a fall on a Strathfield building site. (26 March 2004) [READ MORE]

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