FPVFGS Member 359 Member For: 12y 9m 10d Gender: Male Location: Mornington Posted 13/06/12 05:29 AM Share Posted 13/06/12 05:29 AM Going to have to side with FPVGS on this one. I'll give you some examples of the safety mentality and dobbing sh!t.You get a papercut, you are obligated to report that and fill out an incident report.There are MSDS available for coffeeA fitter grazes his knuckle tightening a bolt, goes it the book as a safety incident. As a result everyone must now wear gloves. Wearing gloves doesn't stop people using the wrong tool for the job or their hand hitting something, it just stops a few drops of blood and hours of paperwork.The other day I was reported to a safety/training bloke by one of the new sparkies. The sparky had just been through more inductions and seen me with my sleeves rolled up. According to the book I'm not allowed to have my sleeves rolled up and he pointed it out to the safety bloke. I asked what the reason was and this sparky said "that there was a risk of entanglement in rotating machinery". The plant was shut down and I was in the back of a troopy. Needless to say I told the sparky to fark off and the safety guy had a chuckle. Had this of been on a different site I may have received a written warning.I will agree with the fact that a lot of dodgy and potentially deadly stuff goes on in the name of production, but it's no different than a building site or a farm.if you are a close team you have each others back anyway and is something isnt right or is unsafe you fix it... another example was a H.S.E member was walking past a perticular lift as a aprentice thought he should stick his hand under the lift to grab the dogging rope .. WE as a team stopped him and explained why he shouldnt ... this H.S.E member didnt do a bloody thing to stop it and just carried on, nothing was ever said until the Cooridinator approached us the following day and said the H.S.E member has put in a incident report . WE had fixed the matter but this dip head in H.S.E thought he was a copper or something and took it to a higher level in the end we were all giving writtin warnings from the company. this little incident happened two years ago at a work site in southern WEst Aus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual harrassment panda I see a red door and I want to paint it black Donating Members 5,919 Member For: 15y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: Far north queensland Posted 13/06/12 05:49 AM Share Posted 13/06/12 05:49 AM Yep, everyone has "a duty of care" to stop unsafe acts. The above is a good example of something that was sorted out on the spot, if the HSE was doing his job properly he would have stopped for a chat. The furtherest it would have went would have been a toolbox talk.If you are new and green then keep your wits about you, noone should expect you to be up to speed straight away. "Look up and live" is a motto that needs to be drummed into everyone. The most common unsafe stuff I see is people walking under things they shouldn't, with no idea whats going on above them. Try to make eye contact with as many people as you can, it could save your life one day.I agree with the melbourne people that $90-100k isn't that much for the hours and remote lifestyle, but rural wages are a lot lower than city wages, I doubled my hourly rate when I swapped sugar mills for ball mills, back to about 1.5x now as I have a different job. I was on a site last week where almost 90% of the workforce is under 30, for a kid straight out of school to walk into a $80k job hosing floors it's a good headstart on guys earning $25k as an apprentice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 13/06/12 06:18 AM Share Posted 13/06/12 06:18 AM 25k as an apprentice :oI did the wrong apprenticeship.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual harrassment panda I see a red door and I want to paint it black Donating Members 5,919 Member For: 15y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: Far north queensland Posted 13/06/12 07:05 AM Share Posted 13/06/12 07:05 AM wages have gone up since then old man the amount of top ups the kids get off the gumbyment has also gone through the roof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 6m 11d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 13/06/12 08:26 AM Share Posted 13/06/12 08:26 AM Yeah I know.. And I'm not friggin old.. I finished my combined trades in 2.5 years.. And my first apprentice was working 6 months before the gumbyment started subsidizing his income and handing out tools for trades allowances..Ahh to be young again.. How the Fark did I used to live on 120 a week.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relentless xr6 Member 363 Member For: 14y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 11/02/13 10:33 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 10:33 AM Hey guys I really want to get into the mines I'm a diesel mechanic by trade but I specialize in Allison automatics. I am 22 years old looking for a fly in fly out job I don't mind starting from the bottom up if anyone could help me it would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 9m 17d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 11/02/13 10:42 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 10:42 AM Do a search. There's an existing thread with a lot of info on mining jobs in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 2m 29d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 11/02/13 10:47 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 10:47 AM Like this one... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual harrassment panda I see a red door and I want to paint it black Donating Members 5,919 Member For: 15y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: Far north queensland Posted 11/02/13 10:50 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 10:50 AM Relentless, search seek for Diesel fitter jobs in WA and name your price. Plenty of work in Mackay at the moment too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relentless xr6 Member 363 Member For: 14y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 11/02/13 11:05 AM Share Posted 11/02/13 11:05 AM Hey guys I just had a read of this topic thanks dags for transferring me here I will have a look at seek now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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