Current News for Construction

Two senior executives of the company responsible for the Canberra Airport hangar collapse have been fined a total of $36,000.

The CFMEU is investigating a growing epidemic of tower cranes that do not meet Australian standards.

The CFMEU has launched a blitz on excavator safety after an incident which left a teenage worker paralysed resulted in just $40,000 in fines.

A 58-year-old building worker is recovering from a fall at a Sydney construction site a week after a foreman was writing the word “bullshit” on the minutes of a safety audit.

Chemical producer Orica has been forced to clean up its safety policies, after a nitric acid leak at its Gladstone construction site prompted 300 workers to walk out.

The “co-operative” approach to safety which ensured no workers were injured in the Lane Cove tunnel collapse is under threat by the Howard Government.

Craig McLeod was John Howard's “enterprise” worker. The experienced tradesman negotiated his own contract but, within months, it had cost him $17,000 and his life.

A CFMEU safety representative is back at work after the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission demanded he be re-instated.

Two workers have been injured at a site controlled by a company previously at the centre of union-busting Building Industry Taskforce actions.

A building company may face prosecution over the death of 16-year-old Joel Exner, who was killed when he fell 12 metres through a safety mesh at a Sydney building site two years ago.

The AMWU will investigate a Newcastle building site at the centre of serious injuries to a 21-year-old apprentice for “as long as it takes”.

A 21-year-old apprentice who suffered life-threatening injuries at a building site was left in a shed without medical care, despite being within 150 metres of a Newcastle hospital emergency department.

Five workers may have been handed death sentences by a construction company that ignored a prohibition notice on a contaminated Newcastle worksite.

The widow of a man killed while working on the Cross City Tunnel has warned new construction industry laws will lead to more deaths.

A NSW Detective told a coronial inquiry last week that the contractor on a site where a 16-year-old died was considered to be someone who did the job quickly with minimum costs.

A Building Industry Taskforce attempt to block workplace safety checks has been thrown out of court.

A construction worker who saw his supervisor decapitated, and suffered serious back injuries, is unable to claim damages under NSW Workers Comp rules.

Tunnel workers on the Chatswood rail link are being told to shave their beards to save the boss money.

A Sydney building worker was decapitated in the same week company directors called on the Howard Government to water down safety laws.

A worker was lucky to escape with his life when pinned by a "death trap" crane used on the Epping to Chatswood railway line.

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