Queensland is highlighting to me the results of the disgusting attitude of Safety Institute of Australia and how the SIA allows Members, Fellows and Chartered Fellows to exist without tertiary qualifications. Sure they say 30 years of qualifications is not long enough for them to get qualified most probably becuase they haven't the knowledge or skills to complete a four year course over a 30 year time period.
And the reflection of uneducated Safety Personnel (can't call them professionals as they haven't a qualification to be recognised as a professional) is clear in this lovely state of queensland.
In the last 4 months, within a 100km radius of the major captital city there have been people injured or killed undertaking what any Safety Officer worth anything would have detected and prevented in such incidents as:
Trench collapses
Falls from roofs and hieght
hit by moving plant
caught in plant
And again today I see the results of incompetent and uneducated safety insitute of australia and the flow on effects throughout the safety industry with the so called professional body not requiring qualifications why should industry??????
Man dies after being run over by backhoe
November 21, 2006 07:59am
Article from: AAP
A MAN has died in hospital after being run over by a a backhoe in Brisbane's north-western suburbs.
Police said the 61-year-old man was loading the backhoe onto a truck in McGinn Road at Ferny Grove at 4.30pm (AEST) yesterday.
He drove it onto the truck, got out of the cabin and had gone to the back of the trailer to secure it when it rolled down and ran over him.
The backhoe continued across the road, hitting a house and damaging it, but there was no-one home at the time.
The man was taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital with serious injuries but died at 8.15pm (AEST).
About time the Safety Institute of Australia recognised how it brings the whole safety industry into disrepute and stops OHS being recognised as a profession becuase of the slack attitude towards qualifications and allowing unqualified people to vote on issues regarding qualified people who have proven their competence!
I'd have to agree with the following
Australians branded 'anti-intellectual'
November 21, 2006 08:14am
Article from: AAP
MOST Australians are anti-intellectual and hostile towards education, a senior Labor frontbencher said today.
In a provocative speech to the Sydney Institute tonight (AEDT), Lindsay Tanner will argue parents are partly to blame for a culture of anti-intellectualism in Australia.
"There's a lot of evidence that we're still disdaining of learning, we're still regarding learning activity as something that `real Aussies' don't get into too much," Mr Tanner said on ABC Radio today.
Although I believe the Safety Institute of Australia is as responsible as any with it's blatant attitute of holding the Safety Industry back from being recognised as a profession and banning people with qualifications to protect their slack uneducated buddies in high places.
Regards
Daniel
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