“We want everyone to make it home to their family at the end of the day, which is why we are reminding everyone of their obligations and responsibilities, not just from employers to their employees, but employees’ obligations to each other.”
Anderson also announced that to mark National Safe Work Month, SafeWork NSW will take the construction industry as its focus, placing particular emphasis on the obligations of businesses and workers to stay safe while working at heights. “Since April this year, SafeWork NSW has been targeting unsafe scaffolds, visiting more than 700 construction sites and issuing 832 notices, including $109,000 in on-the-spot fines for falls risks,” Anderson said. “While inspectors have seen some improvement in scaffold safety recently, the level of risk is still unacceptable with 44% of scaffolds having missing parts, while on 36% of sites it appeared unlicensed workers had altered or removed scaffolding components.” “That is why we need to strengthen laws and change attitudes to target risky behaviour, before someone gets hurt, or dies,” Anderson concluded.
Anderson also announced that to mark National Safe Work Month, SafeWork NSW will take the construction industry as its focus, placing particular emphasis on the obligations of businesses and workers to stay safe while working at heights. “Since April this year, SafeWork NSW has been targeting unsafe scaffolds, visiting more than 700 construction sites and issuing 832 notices, including $109,000 in on-the-spot fines for falls risks,” Anderson said. “While inspectors have seen some improvement in scaffold safety recently, the level of risk is still unacceptable with 44% of scaffolds having missing parts, while on 36% of sites it appeared unlicensed workers had altered or removed scaffolding components.” “That is why we need to strengthen laws and change attitudes to target risky behaviour, before someone gets hurt, or dies,” Anderson concluded.
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