WorkSafe Commissioner Mark McCabe urged workers and bosses to take care at work after two workers have been injured in workplace falls and a construction site has been shut down in Canberra in the last week.
A workman was taken to hospital with suspected spinal injuries and broken bones after a four-metre fall from a ladder at a house he was painting. In a separate accident, a 20-year-old apprentice electrician suffered an electric shock and fell five metres from a ladder on to a concrete pavement.
An inner city building site has also been shut down because of fears over asbestos handling. The building union stopped work on the site, alleging that a load of rubble contaminated with asbestos had been rejected at the tip because it was not sealed properly. ''We just hope that fibres weren't flying off this thing all the way from Civic to Symonston and back” the union's branch secretary Dean Hall said. He also said workers on the site had not been trained and proper safety gear was not being used.
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Source: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/painter-injured-in-4m-fall-20120926-26l94.html#ixzz27cdRKc8K
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