AN160142 – Gold Mining Engineering and Maintenance Award

19. - SPECIAL RATES AND PROVISIONS

(1) Height Money:

Tradespersons and welders engaged on the surface in the erection, repair and/or maintenance of steel frame buildings, smoke stacks, bridges or similar structures at a height of 15.5 metres or more above the nearest horizontal plane, shall be paid at the rate of $2.20 per shift extra.

(2) (a) Goggles, glasses and gloves or other efficient substitutes therefore shall be available for personal use of any worker engaged in welding.

(b) Every worker shall sign an acknowledgment on receipt thereof and on leaving employment shall return same to the employer.

(c) During the time the same are on issue to the worker, he shall be responsible for any loss or damage thereto, fair wear and tear attributable to ordinary use excepted.

(d) No worker shall lend another worker the goggles, glasses or gloves or substitutes issued to such first mentioned worker, and if the same are lent, both the lender and the borrower shall be deemed guilty of wilful misconduct.

(e) Before goggles, glasses or gloves or any substitutes which have been used by a worker are re-issued by the employer to another worker, they shall be effectively sterilised.

(3) Dirt Money:

Employees employed on dirty work or in wet places shall be paid 45 cents per hour extra.

(4) A fitter or other tradesperson, not specially employed as a welder, who, in addition to being employed in the employees classification is also required to do welding, shall be entitled to receive 34 cents per day extra whilst so engaged.

(5) Workers in very wet places shall be provided with oilskin coats and rubber boots.

(6) Heat Money:

(a) Employees employed for more than one hour in the shade where the artificial temperature is between 46.1° and 51.6° Celsius shall be paid 45 cents per hour extra.

(b) Employees employed for more than one hour where the artificial temperature exceeds 51.6° Celsius shall be paid 55 cents per hour extra. Where work continues for more than two hours in temperatures exceeding 51.6° Celsius, employees shall be entitled to 20 minutes rest after every two hours, without deduction of pay.

(7) Confined Space:

Employees employed in confined spaces as hereinafter defined shall be paid 55 cents per hour extra.

"Confined Space" means a working space, the dimensions of which necessitate working continuously in a stooped or otherwise cramped position, or without proper ventilation, or where confinement within a limited space is productive of unusual discomfort.

(8) Fumes:

Employees engaged on repair work to the roasters under circumstances subjecting them to serious inconvenience from fumes shall be entitled to payment of 28 cents per hour extra, with a minimum of 56 cents, while so engaged.

(9) Special Rates Not Cumulative - Where more than one of the disabilities entitling a worker to extra rates exists on the same job, the employer shall be bound to pay only one rate, namely - the highest for the disabilities so prevailing. Provided that this subclause shall not apply to Confined Space, Dirt Money, Height Money or Hot Work, the rates for which are cumulative.

(10) Any person appointed by the employer to perform first aid duties shall be paid an allowance of $2.00 per day or shift (flat).

(11) A tradesperson who holds and, in the course of employment may be required to use a current "A" or "B" Grade licence issued pursuant to the relevant regulation in force on the 28th day of February 1978 under the Electricity Act 1945, shall be paid an allowance of $18.70 per week.