I suppose we have to wait & see what the cause is but in this day & age in this country it's disgusting that 8 stories of scaffolding collapsed killing a young bloke.

Yes ok I edited good call thanks .

You're a f@#king disgrace Bazz. To use the death of a young bloke to push your unionist agenda without knowing the facts of the event is dragging the bottom of the barrel. No-one should go to work and not come home, but to try and score a cheap shot at non-union sites when a young bloke has died in an accident is disgusting.

I can't see a safety officer helping .
I'm thinking that the scaffolding is cheap import that hasn't been inspected & would fail Australian standards, the place is flooded with it now.
And just collapsed under its own weight.
I'm waiting for all these cheap cranes to start falling over as well .

How about we show the poor bloke's family a bit of respect so they can deal with their loss, and then wait for the investigation findings like civilised humans before we start waving our pitchforks around wildly

I'm not waving it around blindly.
There has been a spate of scaffolding collapse up till now it's been pure luck nobody else has been killed.
Do we really have to wait & just let people continue to use sub standard scaffolding until we get a answer?
Just looking at the news shows the bottom has collapsed under its own weight.
It didn't fall away from the building.
I can tell you from personal experience that this cheap imported scaffolding is a hell of a lot thinner than the old stuff made in Australia.

To become a worksafe [ vic] licensed modular scaffold-er, is a 5 day course . This means the person is legally allowed to build and supervise ,non trained laborers, in the construction of up to 35 meter high any length modular scaffold tied into the building with tube and fitting.
You work out , if that is a problem .

After seeing some of the structures that scaffies are required to build and put their name/assurance to, i'd like to hope it gets thoroughly investigated.

If the structure/materials aren't up to scratch, scaffy or end user, people can die.

A good site foreman goes a long way to a safe site. The best site foreman are onto safety issues before they eventuate and push safety hard. Sure union sites are safety conscious but I also have been on plenty of non union sites that were very safety driven. But this is an area that i do agree that unions do a somewhat positive job and regardless of pay if I had a choice of working on a union or non union site I would choose union. All the intimidation that they do is another story.
Nobody deserves to be hurt on any site full stop so let's hope we learn from this.

^^^ more assumptions.

Yeah if Labor was in power and it was a union site no accidents happen. Yawn.

No with the casual labor hire that's in place if you complain you go .
Thats a fact of life .
They just send someone else & they get the heads up quick smart if you want to keep your job keep your mouth shut.

looking at the news tonight they are saying ties have been removed & possibly overload with bricks .
to many bricks up the hoist & stored on scaffolding.
I straight out don't believe that .
I worked on hoists for a few years & bricks went on & off with pallet jacks .
Because there a pallet of bricks
Just left on slab till needed & moved to we're needed with pallet jacks when needed.The majority of bricks going up the hoist are for internal walls & they don't stack them on scaffolding or u can't use the scaffolding.
If it's stacking bricks up to use off the scaffolding To brick up external wall & that's what the scaffolds there for it should be sufficiently strong enough to take the weight.

And a crane collapsed today ffs .
lets all worry about vegans