Alerts & Incidents

CFMEU Members need to be aware of employers who may try to change your legal and certified EBA without the Union involved.

Members are advised to refuse to attend any meetings or to vote in any form – by hand, by SMS or postal vote – on variations to their EBA without the Union.

With an unprecedented level of tower crane activity on Sydney’s skyline, a crane incident at the Probuild Constructions Discovery Point residential high-rise development has again focused concerns on safety standards.

A 54 year old man has been killed after a fatal crushing incident. The boilermaker was understood to be operating a boom lift on the ProBuild Melbourne Convention Centre site. He was a Stilcon employee, family and CFMEU Officials are on site.

Workers were lucky to escape without major injuries when a backhoe rolled onto its side at the Bayswater Level Crossing Removal project.

The CFMEU says appropriate control measures were not in place and the incident highlights ongoing safety concerns at the site.

As a result of precast/formwork meeting, provided the checklist is complied with, panel erection will continue as normal.

A 54 year old man has tragically died after falling approxiamately 20 metres down a lift well in an incident at a Hamilton Marino site in Carlton.

The building industry is dangerous, but workplace fatalities are unacceptable.

CFMEU EBAs state that workers will stop work and leave site when the temperature reaches 35 degrees.

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We all know that coming closer to the end of the year, bosses start pushing harder to get jobs finished and corners start getting cut.

In just a 3 week period, 8 construction workers were killed in Australia just recently. Three of them in Victoria.

Wednesday 25 November 2015 was a very dark day in Western Australia with three tragic, preventable fatalities. The victims were two Irish ceiling fixers both in their 20’s and a 32 year old scaffolder.

1st incident

A 29 year old man, CFMEU Member Carlos Araujo, has died after being crushed in an incident at the Specialised Concrete Pumping company yard.

The building industry is dangerous, but workplace fatalities are unacceptable.