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struggler, didn’t your SM organise a safety audit to be undertaken prior to the accident happening. I know that our SM did a safety audit which identified things such as the height of our safety rails not being to current standards (this was not a fault of the builder as the building is over 40 years old and it was probably kosher back then but it doesn’t meet current standards). Our SM told us that if we didn’t undertake the safety audit, we would have been in breach of our responsibility and would be liable for any injury or death resulting from this. I think they also mentioned that it was a requirement of our insurers that this type of audit take place periodically (every 5-10 years) for the policy to be valid. If this is the case, your SM should have organised it, but I’m not sure if this is a leglislated requirement. Maybe someone can confirm.
Jimmy
Don’t get too strung up about negative comments. You’re not going to please 100% of the people 100% of the time so every now and then you’ll come up against guys on the internet you wont see eye to eye with (trolls or otherwise).
With the Bankstown fire, I was there yesterday and there’s still a couple of fire trucks parked outside the building so the investigations are still ongoing. I agree with you that it’s not good enough but until the laws are toughened up, this sort of thing will continue to happen. There are a multitude of units in this region (Bankstown, Yagoona, Punchbowl, Wiley Park, Lakemba, and yes I’m a local), that would fail fire test inspections today if anybody took the time to investigate, but with the penalities low or non existant for non compliance, is it any surprise that nobody cares. Until the government (that’s you Barry) gets tough on this and, for example brings in manslaughter charges or the like when something like this happens (or at least some serious financial penalities), then things will continue to go on this way forever.