JOHN Holland Rail has been pulled out of the ASCC’s 2008 Safe Work Australia Awards, as it comes under investigation for a worker’s death.
John Holland Rail was listed as a finalist in the ASCC 2008 Safe Work Australia Awards, for “Best Solution to an Identified Workplace Health and Safety Issue”. It had entered its huck gun trolley for consideration of an award.
According to the entry, the huck gun trolley helped John Holland Rail deliver projects on time, while reducing the risk of injury.
However, the company is undergoing investigation over the 2008 death of Mark McCallum at the John Holland Rail Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in Queensland.
McCallum died after being run over by machinery while working at the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in north Queensland, when his foot became trapped under wooden scaffolding planks while moving precast concrete decks.
A hearing into the fatality is set for 11 March 2009.
The Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) says innovations in safety technology should be matched with “scrupulous attention to basic health and safety practices on construction sites”.
The winners of the ASCC 2008 Safe Work Australia Awards will be announced on 28 April 2009.