PN Greta depot: PIN issued by HSR

After months of inaction and ignoring HSR concerns and requests regarding fatigue and the likely impact of it, your HSR Glenn Jones, issued Pacific National with a Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN).

A PIN is a formal notice allowed for under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and is a last resort measure available to Health and Safety Representatives to remedy a contravention ofWHS legislation by a duty holder (in this case Pacific National). Section 97 of the act requires that a person issued with a PIN must, as soon as possible, display a copy of the PIN in a prominent place at or near the workplace at which work is being carried out.

For months your HSR and committee have raised concerns over how employees are rostered to drive both Trains and Motor Vehicles. These concerns have been repeatedly stone walled and dismissed. Requests for information to assist in reducing risk and identifying potential causes have also been ignored.

Pacific National will now need to address the concerns raised by Glenn before the specified date on the notice. It is most likely that PN will seek the intervention of a Comcare Inspector to resolve the matter. Members can be assured your Union will be there to support your HSR representative in resolving these critical safety issues.

We will keep you informed as matters progress. In the interim we again remind members of their safety obligations and that they should always be aware of their Fatigue Levels and follow established guidelines and not operate any machinery in a state of fatigue. Equally we call on Pacific National to seriously address Fatigue in the workplace, not just produce a document full of platitudes and rhetoric to make out they are compliant.

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