cods wrote on May 1
st, 2019 at 8:20am:
DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1
st, 2019 at 7:31am:
cods wrote on May 1
st, 2019 at 7:17am:
DonDeeHippy wrote on May 1
st, 2019 at 6:17am:
Construction Deaths in Australia
11 in 2018
7 so far in 2019
You people have no idea how few deaths there are in Australia now...… Literally ive been on jobs with millions of work hours and no injuries little on Deaths...…
Last year as you can see there was less than 1 death australia wide per month...... These safety rules work and work very well, it's usually small companies that don't follow the safety rules that are the problem.
why is it automatically the companies fault??..
have you seen the latest ads on TV about safety?
thats right it begins with YOU..or ME as the case may be...I think there should be more emphasis on looking out for yourself.....
maybe I am the only one who notices when I was a kid we stood at the kerb and looked bothways before stepping on the road.....
now they just step out head down reading their phone not a look not a heads up......they all expect someone else to be watching over them....
how often are you blinded bu the sun... and some clown steps out without so much as a glance?...
it needs to be stopped all round....
I am so sorry for this youngs mans death....but we are stooopid as hell if we think a bunch of rules will prevent someones death on a working site.. 
That's where you are wrong ,lots of rules are the only thing that can stop deaths.... I did a expansion of a power station a few years ago the original station built in the early 80's had 10 deaths and they where happy because the insured for 12 deaths, a win win situation in the 80's.
The new station was 2/3 the size of the original and with all the rules and laws like if a worker dies the boss can go to jail etc, there where no deaths and one broken leg.
That is just one job ad not really that big,.
Yes keeping safe and doing all the rules is annoying, but in the last 10 years I've never been forced to do something where i thought i could get hurt.
In my early days when it was no do, no job I feel very blessed i never got really hurt or killed.
a young man died on a construction site a few weeks back he was new just 18,,.. he died when a scaffolding fell
I ask what was a 18yr old with no experience doing on a scaffolding 3 stories high?..... he wasnt alone...
do you speed in your car ddh?.... I bet you do.......yet there laws saying DO NOT SPEED....it can KILL..
we break rules every day.....most of us get away with doing that...
... but not all!
Yes and that will be a question to his supervisor and the site supervisors and their employers, and now ,unlike the 80's the supervisors and the Employers can goto jail if they did wrong.
I don't think the mans age has much to do with it, a 18 year old can fall off failing scaffolding as well as a 40 year old.
Also after that accident the site would be closed down until WHS decided it was safe again, more than likely every job from the company that the man was working for would also be closed down not just that site.
In the 80's it would of been back to work the next day like nothing has happened.
well actually I'm very careful of my speed Cods and usually drive about 10km's under the limit, I'm in no hurry. I find the cruise control is a godsend for keeping to the limit, by your words I take it you don't keep to the limits ?
As you say people do unsafe things every day and none of them are thinking that doing so might cause injury or death to them or others.... It doesn't stop deaths and injuries occurring though.
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