salad in wrote on Apr 18
th, 2018 at 8:23pm:
Its time wrote on Apr 18
th, 2018 at 6:02pm:
On Thursday, it will be two years since 18-year-old Joshua Park-Fing died on a government-sponsored Work for the Dole site.
Josh was forced to ride on the back of a flatbed trailer without a harness, while being towed by a tractor. It’s suspected the tractor slipped a gear and jolted, causing the teen to fall and hit his head. Josh died from head injuries.
Two years on and his family still don't have answers about his death.
Jobs minister Michaelia Cash has refused to release the report into what happened and won't answer questions.
The ALP, the workers' friend, the progressive party, the party of ideas, has a woeful record when it comes to worker safety.
Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program: The four men who died
Read more about the four men whose deaths are linked to the scheme, which was set up in 2009 as an economic stimulus measure to help ward off the effects of the global financial crisis.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-17/young-men-who-died-in-insulation-scheme/53...ABC....a fine and trusted news source.
Credit is where credit is due. May be, if you had read the article that you have quoted, you would find that:
Matthew Fuller: The company was directed by 19-year-old electrician Ben McKay, who was in charge of on-the-job safety for unqualified insulation installers like Matthew.
During the inquest into Matthew's death, Mr McKay told the Brisbane coroner's court that the installation could have been made 100 per cent safe by disconnecting power from the mains source.
But he said this was not routinely done because the work involved would have made it impossible for his company to make a profit.
At the inquest in May 2013, Mr McKay acknowledged he had been aware of up to four instances where staples had been put through cables before Matthew's death.
----> To me, this is death caused by his boss quest for profit and money, rather than the insulation program.
Rueben Barnes: The first-year carpentry apprentice had been working for installation company Arrow Maintenance for less than a month and had received no insulation training and no induction.
His co-workers at the site had not been trained in first aid treatment for electric shock.
Again, its the company who had made these decision, not to properly train their staff before subjecting them to potentionally dangerous works.
Marcus Wilson: Marcus Wilson, 19, from New South Wales, died of heat exhaustion after spending his first day in a new job working in a roof cavity installing insulation.
He was the third person to die in connection to the scheme and his death prompted calls from the Australian Council of Trade Unions to halt the scheme until safety standards were improved.
Again, its his boss who is forcing him to work in unsafe environment.
Michell Sweeney: The 22-year-old died after being electrocuted while using metal staples to lay conductive insulation in a roof in Cairns.
The practice had known safety hazards and had already been banned in New Zealand.
Lawyer Peter Koutsoukis from Maurice Blackburn is suing Mitchell's employer, Titan Insulations, on behalf of the young man's mother and two older brothers.
Again, it is the boss of the company that used an unsafe practice to earn money. And something went wrong.
Yes, perhaps the insulation scheme was a bit hastily implemented, but it was the time that quick and decisive measures must be made. However, anyone with any analytical skill would put the ultimate responsibility of these death squarely with their employers who got a bit too greedy
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