AN120196 – Engine Drivers General (State) Award
In this award except where otherwise clearly intended:
4.1 "Electric motor attendant" means a person who attends to an electric motor or motors of 20 kilowatts or more in the aggregate, and performs any duties of oiling or cleaning or attending to commutators, brushes, fuses, or switches.
4.2 "Engine driver" means any person who operates or drives any engine or engines, the motive power of which is either steam, gas, oil, water, compressed air, or electricity, and includes any person who is called upon in the ordinary course of their duty to do engine driver's work other than simply stopping or starting an engine under the supervision of an engine driver.
4.3 "Engine driver in charge of plant" means –
(a) when two or more drivers are employed at the plant at one time the engine driver who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility; or
(b) an engine driver who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility over one or more non-certificated firemen; or
(c) when the employee is the only person of their class employed on the plant the engine driver who does the general repair work of the plant in addition to the work of engine driving, but not when the employee merely assists a fitter or engineer to do such work;
or
(d) where shifts are worked the engine driver who is directed to carry out the general repair work of the plant in addition to the work of engine driving but not when the employee merely assists a fitter or engineer to do such work.
4.4 "Boiler attendant or fireman - first class" means a boiler attendant or fireman who attends to two or more boilers or two or more suction gas generators, or one boiler the evaporation capacity of which, attributed thereto by the maker exceeds 5.44 but less than 45.36 tonnes of steam per hour, or one gas generator supplying a total engine load capacity, attributed thereto by the maker, of not less than 746 Kw, and includes the boiler attendant or fireman of a steam navvy or excavator.
4.5 "Fireman or greaser in charge of plant" means a fireman or greaser who is the only person of their class employed on the plant and who does the general repair work of the plant in addition to the work of firing or greasing, but not when assisting a fitter, engine driver or engineer to do such work of a greaser assisting fireman to do such work.
4.6 "Greaser or oiler" shall mean and include any person substantially engaged in greasing or oiling any engine, machinery or shafting.
4.7 "Greaser or oiler - first class" means a greaser or oiler who under the supervision of the engine driver stops or starts an engine or engines, but does not include any greaser or oiler who does so only in cases of necessity or emergency.
4.8 "Leading boiler attendant or fireman - first class" means –
(a) the boiler attendant or fireman employed at a plant where three or more firemen are employed at the same time who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility but does not include any boiler attendant or fireman where an engine driver is charged with being in charge of plant in accordance with paragraph 4.3(b) of this clause;
(b) the boiler attendant or fireman employed at a plant where three or more boiler attendants or firemen are employed at the same time whose duty it is to attend to the water of boilers that are fired by two or more of the other boiler attendants or firemen;
4.9 "Leading boiler attendant or fireman - second class" means –
(a) the boiler attendant or fireman employed at a plant where two boiler attendants or firemen are employed at the same time who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility but does not include any boiler attendant or fireman where an engine driver is charged with being in charge of plant in accordance with subclause 2.3(b);
(b) the boiler attendant or fireman employed at a plant where two boiler attendants or firemen are employed at the same time and whose duty it is to attend to the water of the boilers that are fired by the other fireman.
4.10 "Special class boiler attendant or fireman" means a boiler attendant or fireman in charge of boilers with an evaporation capacity of 45.36 tonnes or more per hour.
4.11 "Lofty crane - first class" means a lofty crane on a building in the course of erection or demolition where the driving platform is more than 30.48 metres above the ground.
4.12 "Lofty crane - second class" means a lofty crane on a building in the course of erection or demolition where the driving platform is from 6.096 to 30.48 metres above the ground.
4.13 "Lofty crane - third class" means a lofty crane outside buildings not in the course of erection where the driving platform is more than 6.096 metres from the level of the ground, but does not include an overhead traverser crane.
4.14 "Steam engine - first class" means a turbine or an engine or engines having a single cylinder with a bore of 0.304 8 metres in diameter or over, or having singly or together two or more cylinders the sum of the area of whose bores equals or exceeds the area of a circle 0.304 8 metres in diameter.
4.15 "Steam engine - second class" means an engine or engines having a single cylinder with a bore less than 0.304 8 metres in diameter or having singly or together two or more cylinders the sum of the area of whose bores is less than the area of a circle 0.304 8 metres in diameter.
4.16 "Year" means a year commencing 1 January.
4.17 "Continuous Work" means work carried on with consecutive shifts of employees throughout the twenty-four hours of each of at least six consecutive days without interruption except during breakdowns or meal breaks or due to unavoidable causes beyond the control of the employer.
