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Death at Appleton Dock: ports shut down for 24 hours


Work at all P&O Automotive and General Stevedoring (POAGS) wharves shut down nationwide in all 15 ports for 24 hours at midday after the death of another waterside worker - the third this year, the second at POAGS operations and the third fatality at Appleton Dock in 7 years.
 
A 41-year-old Melbourne waterside worker was crushed to death this morning during pick up and delivery (R&D) operations at Appleton Dock. The man's name has been withheld until his wife and two school-age children have been contacted.
 
"The industry is in crisis," said Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia. "It's the third fatality on the wharves in five months - and we said last time we lost a worker in March we needed urgent action to overcome the lack of safety on the job.
 
"How can I assure families, mothers and fathers of young families, that they need not fear about their partners going to work in the morning? The fact is that it's hard to make that promise and it makes me sick to the stomach that is the truth."
 
Mr Crumlin said there was a yawning gap and inadequacies in state and federal safety legislation covering the nation's wharves, especially in bulk and general operations, after years of neglect and deregulation under the Howard Government years.
 
"We're not copping inaction," he said. "The industry's safety record is appalling. We need national legislation. We need regulation that establishes a robust compliance and enforcement regime, supported by guidance material covering the full range of stevedoring hazards. We need the Federal Government to intervene."
 
Since the last two deaths, the union has held national stevedoring conferences of workers to examine the safety issues and lobbied the government for national regulations.
 
The government supported the formation of a Safe Work Australia (SWA) Stevedoring Temporary Advisory Group (TAG) in May with government, employer, union and Safe Work Australia representatives. However the union had called for a strengthening of the current terms of reference of the group before today's tragedy.
 
"The Federal Government needs to direct that Safe Work Australia gives the Stevedoring TAG the highest priority and that it be given a deadline of October 2010 to complete its work to ensure that any outcomes are included in the harmonised OHS regulations for implementation by 1 January 2012.
 
"The government also needs to convene the first meeting of the Safe Work Australia advisory group at the earliest possible time, preferably early next month, and that it is addressed by the Minister or his representative as an indication of the Government's commitment to support improved OHS on the waterfront", Mr Crumlin said.
 
The objective is to achieve stevedoring specific regulation to form part of the national harmonised OH&S regulations.

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