Construction company works on safety award

A KEYSBOROUGH business is among finalists for this year’s WorkSafe Awards.
State Assistant Treasurer Gordon Rich-Phillips last week congratulated the first of eight finalists nominated as leaders in workplace health and safety.
Fulton Hogan Construction is vying for the award for the best solution to a specific workplace health and safety issue.
Its work includes road construction, pipelines and infrastructure and its award nomination is for its solution to issues with pumping concrete to fill anti-skid block form work under bridge beams.
To get the concrete to the form work in between the bridge spans, workers had to manually handle the boom pump pipe and/or bucket the concrete in place.
The award entry said this meant dealing with the concrete pump set up and managing traffic.
Engineers and workers were involved in resolving the issue, which saw cut outs were placed in the bridge spans at conception and designed in “as built”.
“This enabled the pump to pump directly to the form work below and not have to set up a second time… and removed the manual handling from the task,” the entry said.
It also removed the need for traffic management.
Businesses and individuals have until 12 July to enter one or more of the 12 WorkSafe Awards categories, with winners to be announced in October.
WorkCover chief executive Denise Cosgrove said the awards were important to recognise large and small businesses across Victoria.
“There are many individuals and businesses across the state doing fantastic work to create healthier and safer workplaces and their efforts should be rewarded,” she said.
“We want to honour their achievements and acknowledge the tremendous role they are playing in keeping Victoria the safest state in which to work.”
Visit www.worksafeawards.com.au for more information.