AMIEU Supports Health & Safety Reps

This alert is about the dangers of hot liquid being suddenly released from an abattoir cooking machine used to process tripe.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union says increasing line speeds can increase worker injuries, most especially Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and food-borne illnesses.

This follows the Regulatory Impact Study carried out by Price Waterhouse Coopers for the Victorian Government. According to the official budget speech by Victoria’s Treasurer, Kim Wells, Victoria will not be enacting the model Work Health and Safety laws.

14 March, 2012

The report by Safe Work Australia revealed that three-quarters of the costs of workplace injuries and diseases is borne by the injured workers themselves, including loss of current and future income and non-compensated medical expenses.

George Weston Foods Limited was convicted and fined $50,000 at the Castlemaine Magistrates’ Court today after pleading guilty to one count of failing to provide a safe plant.