AN170068 – Mobile Crane Hire Award
(a) Employees shall not be entitled to payment for time lost due to inclement weather unless work has ceased by agreement with the employer; provided that employees shall not be required to work in unsafe conditions.
(b) Subject to subclause (a), employees unable to work at a site due to inclement weather may be required to:
remain on site; or
transfer the crane to an alternative site; or
return to the depot;
until such inclement weather ceases or abates to allow safe work to continue.
Where cranes are left on site for five (5) working days or more and employees are deemed to be part of the site, the procedures on the site (“site procedures”) shall apply. A crane shall not be removed from a site if it is unsafe to do so as a result of weather conditions
(c) ‘Site Procedures’ shall only relate to this Inclement Weather Clause.
(d) Definitions
(i) ‘Inclement Weather’ shall mean the existence of abnormal climatic conditions (i.e. rain, hail, snow, high winds, cold, extreme high temperature or the like or any combination thereof) by virtue of which it is not reasonable or safe to continue working whilst the same prevail.
(ii) ‘Employer’ shall mean owner, manager or recognised agent of the owner or manager of the Company.
