mmmm, the boss asks a worker to do something stupid. the worker says"I'm not sure about how safe this is." the boss says "are you telling me you aren't going to do this? cause if you aren't going to do this i'll get someone else to do it" a euphamism for I'll fire your smacking arse and get another one of those 457 doods in..... The worker complies as she is barely able to scrape a living by now and she''l lose her kids to the social welfare department if sahe looses her job.

So she/he gets up there under duress - not really knowing what the bugger to do ad falls through the cieling..............

Who's fault is it? The smacking mongrel that told her to do the job.

I'm sorry, but anyone dumb enough to walk on a plasterboard ceiling deserves a few bruises ....

Tumut mill fined $170,000 over workers' burn injuries
Christopher Knaus
April 28, 2012

A paper mill near Canberra was fined $170,000 over a safety breach in which two workers suffered serious chemical burns.

Two employees of the Visy Tumut Kraft Mill, about 100 kilometres west of the ACT, were seriously injured during routine maintenance work in 2008.   

The men were working on the chip meter, a machine that uses chemicals and extreme heat to turn woodchip into pulp.


But as they opened a door on the chip meter, hot steam, chemicals and woodchip poured out, causing ''serious chemical and thermal burns'' to both employees.   

NSW WorkCover investigated the incident and issued its findings yesterday.

It found the men worked on the chip meter before the chemicals and wood chip were removed.

Both men were also allowed to work without chemical suits.   

Visy failed to provide adequate supervision, training and instruction for the maintenance work, which meant it was not carried out according to company procedures, WorkCover said.

''Although the company had a range of safety policies, Visy had failed to adequately enforce those procedures and as a result workers were seriously injured,'' WorkCover said.

The company was fined $170,000 for breaching occupational health and safety law, and were ordered to pay WorkCover's court costs.   

A Visy spokesman described the incident as ''highly regrettable'' and said the company placed the utmost importance on the health and safety of its workers. The mill was hit by a fire in an outdoor storage area on January 22 that shut down operations and burned through 1500 tonnes of waste paper, nearly half the amount kept at the site.

That fire smouldered for more than a week, before reigniting on February 2.

WorkCover work health and safety division general manager John Watson said the two men hurt in the 2008 incident were lucky to escape without more serious injury.

Mr Watson said WorkCover would work with Visy to make sure the incident was not repeated.

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