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MUA welcomes new safety code for the waterfrontFour workers killed in four years30 April 2008By MUA media release -
The Maritime Union has welcomed yesterdays' announcement by The Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) that it will develop a nationally consistent approach for OH&S at Australian stevedoring ports. The decision comes after the tragic deaths of four stevedoring workers in four years and a union national and international campaign to tighten safety on the job. "We lost four waterside workers, two last year in Victoria," said MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin. "Their families lost their love ones, their workmates watched them die. We just could not just stand back and let this happen again." Bob Cumberlidge, 51, died at Toll Stevedores, when a 24-tonne steel coil fell on him at the BlueScope Steel, Westernport wharf on March 16, 2007, Peter Ross, 56, was killed on board the Cape Conwayat Appleton Docks (DP World Ports) Melbourne on January 19, 2007, Dean Robinson, 58, was killed on board the Cape Donnington in Adelaide on June 13, 2006 and Jeff Gray, 45, fell to his death on board the MV Kiribati Chief, at P&O Ports, Appleton Dock, Melbourne, on June 23, 2003. Mr Crumlin, who also chairs the Dockers' Section of the International Transport Workers' Federation said the union had worked at every level, state, national and international over the past four years for a stevedoring code of practice, a proposal which is supported by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Julia Gillard. He said it was now important that the ASCC achieve a nationally consistent and enforceable standard for stevedoring OH&S, that is monitored by a national OH&S regulatory agency.
"A comprehensive overhaul of OH&S standards in stevedoring and an enforceable code of practice is long overdue given the unique nature and critical economic and industrial importance of the industry," Mr Crumlin said. "What other workers labour in floating factories that come in and out of our harbours ." Contact MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin tel 0418 379 660
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