AT825520 - Australian Workers’ Union Construction and Maintenance (Western Australia) Award 2003 [Transitional]
In this award:
30.1 Adzing machine, Labourer at means an employee bringing material to or from the adzing machine.
30.2 Air compressor, employee in charge means an employee in charge of an air compressor, but who may be required to do other work than driving it.
30.3 Assistant Rigger means an employee assisting under the direct supervision of a Rigger in erecting or placing in position the members of any type of structure (other than scaffolding and aluminium alloy structures) and for the manner of insuring the stability of such members for dismantling such structures or for setting up cranes or hoists other than those attached to scaffolding and who has had not less than twelve months' experience at rigging work. Direct supervision means that the Rigger must be present on the job to guide the work during its progress.
30.4 Axeman means an employee felling standing trees exceeding 225 millimetres in diameter at point of cut without having to go up on boards or shoes, or an employee converting, cutting, trimming or lopping such trees after they have been felled.
30.5 Axeman on boards or shoes means an employee felling standing trees and having to go upon boards or shoes to do it.
30.6 Ballast packer means an employee packing metal ballast on a railway or tramway.
30.7 Barrowman on incline or on elevated planks means an employee required to use a barrow on an incline of one to twenty or greater or on elevated planks.
30.8 Batterman or Trimmer means an employee finally trimming off the slopes of cuttings, channels, banks or excavations.
30.9 Binman means an employee who, in a tunnel or heading or on a stone crusher on the surface, is regulating the filling of material into wagons or other receptacles from any chute, stage or overhead structure such as is commonly known as a "Chinaman", or from a crusher bin.
30.10 Bitumen pourer means an employee who, otherwise than in patching, pours bitumen in final position.
30.11 Bitumen worker means an employee (other than a Bitumen Pourer) heating, preparing, cutting, carrying, laying using on woodwork or handling asphalt, bitumen, tar or emulsion or material coated with any one thereof.
30.12 Boodler means an employee shovelling underground or in trenches 1.8 metres or more in depth.
30.13 Boxer out means an employee doing the final trimming in road marking.
30.14 Boxer up means an employee levelling and trimming ballast on a railway or tramway.
30.15 Chipper, pipes means an employee scraping or cleaning steel pipes.
30.16 Coffer dam worker (not under air pressure) means an employee working in a coffer dam, caisson or cylinder over 2.4 metres in depth and less than 2.4 metres in diameter.
30.17 Commission means the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC).
30.18 Commissioner means the AIRC constituted by a Commissioner.
30.19 Concrete or Compo worker means an employee (other than Concrete Floater) mixing by hand, handling or working concrete or compo but not a Wire or Bar Worker in reinforced concrete.
30.20 Concrete floater means an employee engaged in concrete or cement work and using a wooden or rubber screeder or mechanical trowel or a wooden float or engaged in bagging off or broom finishing or patching.
30.21 Concrete finisher means an employee other than a Concrete floater engaged in the hand finishing of concrete or cement work not being a finish in marble, mosaic or terrazzo.
30.22 Concrete mixer driver means an employee who operates a concrete mixer and who may be required to effect minor repairs on the machine.
30.23 Construction and maintenance carpenter's labourer means an employee generally assisting a Construction and Maintenance Carpenter in erecting or repairing form work or scaffolding or similar structure in the course of such assistance doing work such as dressing timber, tenoning, pointing, ringing, shoeing or topping piles, mortising head stocks, scribing down girders, walings and bracings, fitting fenders and fitting stay piles but not doing timber squaring.
30.24 Coppice knocker means an employee treating coppice and selected stems for regeneration of area.
30.25 Crowman or Hydraulic punchman means an employee curving, bending or straightening rails by means of an appliance known as a crow.
30.26 Employee in charge of plant means:
30.26.1 when two or more employees are employed at the plant at the one time, the employee who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility; or
30.26.2 an employee who is invested with the superintendence and responsibility or who has to accept the superintendence and responsibility over one or more other employees; or
30.26.3 when he/she is the only person of his/her class employed on the plant the employee who does the general repair work of the plant in addition to the work of operating, but not when he/she merely assists a Fitter or Engineer to do such work; or
30.26.4 where shifts are worked the employee who is directed to carry out the general repair work of the plant in addition to the work of operating, but not when he/she merely assists a Fitter or Engineer to do such work.
30.27 Fencer means an employee erecting fencing with material other than sawn timber such as post and rail or wire fencing.
30.28 Grader operator, with or without scarifier means an employee manually operating a mechanical appliance in connection with a grader.
30.29 Guard means an employee in charge of a train or rake of trucks or railway wagons drawn or propelled by steam, electric or other motor power used in connection with the haulage of ballast (sand, gravel or broken stone), rock, earth or other material used in connection with construction work.
30.30 Heelman means an employee carrying the heel and placing it in position for the Jackman or Leverman.
30.31 Higher pruner means an employee pruning trees required to climb a ladder in performing such pruning work.
30.32 Jointer, 1st Class means an employee engaged on caulking joints of 300 millimetre diameter and over, or Leading Jointer or Jointer-in- charge.
30.33 Jointer, 2nd Class means an employee engaged on the following types of work - caulking joints for water service connections; branch and valve insertions; or reticulation and hydrant connections.
30.34 Jointer, 3rd Class, means an employee engaged on jointing work other than that specified for Jointers, 1st and 2nd Class.
30.35 Leading hand means an employee who is required to supervise or direct or be in charge of another employee or other employees.
30.36 Live sewer work means work carried out in situations where there is direct aerial connection with a sewer through which sewage is flowing. Where aerial connection with sewer is blocked by a disc, plug, water seal or other means the live sewer rate shall not apply.
30.37 Machine, oil, petrol or electric, employee in charge means an employee not elsewhere specified in this award who is in charge of such machine.
30.38 Metal or Gravel Spreader means an employee spreading on base of surface course prior to use of drags, planers, graders or similar means to finally level off.
30.39 Metal Large, Spreader means an employee spreading large metal which is not afterwards levelled by drags, planers, graders or similar means.
30.40 Operator drilling machine means an employee who uses machines driven by hydraulic electric, compressed air or other power to bore holes for explosive charges in shaft or trench sinking or tunnelling or quarry operations with hand or machine rigged drills. He/she must, when required, decide the best location and depth of holes to be bored with a view to the economy and safety of the operation.
30.41 Pipe coating machine - employee assisting in plant means an employee doing preparatory work and ancillary work to pipe coating including scraping, cleaning, fixing transport and spinning rings, etc.
30.42 Pitcher or Beacher means an employee pitching or beaching on embankment or floor with stone or riprap.
30.43 Platman means an employee working underground as Platman.
30.44 Ploughman's offsider means an employee who renders general assistance to the Ploughman in the work of ploughing.
30.45 Powder monkey's assistant means an employee (other than in connection with a quarry) assisting under the direct supervision of a Powder monkey in placing and firing explosive charges excluding the operation of an explosive powered tool. Direct supervision means that the Powder monkey must be present on the job to guide the work during its progress.
30.46 Propagator (Forestry) means an employee engaged as such and responsible for the propagation of plants, trees or shrubs from seeds, cuttings or by grafting or budding.
30.47 Quarry does not include any excavation made in the execution of any work from which materials is secured for the purpose of such work.
30.48 Rails or sleepers, employee loading means an employee loading or unloading on to or from a railway wagon rails of 27 kilograms or more or sleepers.
30.49 Renderer means an employee who applies by hand a continuous coat of cement mortar to a brick, masonry or set concrete surface and finishes it to a true and smooth surface by means of a trowel or float.
30.50 Rigger and Splicer - wire or hempen rope means an adult employee who is responsible for the erection of tackle or who is required amongst other duties to splice wire or hempen rope.
30.51 Scabbler means an employee using a scabbling tool for the purpose of trimming the sides, roof or floor of tunnels or rock excavations and for the purpose of this definition the term scabbling tool shall mean a pick shaped implement or gad generally used for the purpose of scabbling.
30.52 Scaffolder means an employee engaged in the work of erecting or altering or dismantling scaffolding (as hereinafter defined) of all types.
30.53 Scaffolding means scaffolding which is so placed that a person or object falling therefrom could fall a distance of three metres or more.
30.54 Shaft means an excavation over 1.8 metres deep with a cross sectional area of less than thirteen square metres.
30.55 Sharpener, Tool means an employee who sharpens and repairs any tools or drills which are heated to be sharpened.
30.56 Slurry Refiller means an employee engaged on sewerage work who, by means of hand tools, mixes soil with water, to a suitable consistency and shovels the resultant mixture into an excavation.
30.57 Spaller, other than in connection with a quarry means an employee reducing stone to a specified or unspecified size by means of a spalling hammer of a mass of 4.5 kilograms or more.
30.58 Splitter means an employee splitting posts, droppers, rails, slabs or palings.
30.59 Spragger or Spragsman means an employee spragging the wheels of trucks by inserting between the spokes a piece of timber termed a sprag for the purpose of bringing such trucks to a standstill.
30.60 Steam or electric navvy running on rails, Attendant on means an employee lifting and laying down tracks and doing other work incidental thereto.
30.61 Storeman (as defined) means an employee who carries out continuous stores functions of receiving, storing, issuing or recording machine spare parts, tools, fuels or other items.
30.62 Tar worker, inside pipes means an employee required to enter pipes and apply tar or other enamels or bitumen or bituminous enamels or other pipe coating materials to the inside of pipes.
30.63 Telford pitcher means an employee constructing the foundation of a road on the principles laid down by Telford.
30.64 Timber from trench or tunnel, employee drawing means an employee working underground in the drawing of timbers.
30.65 Timberman means an employee timbering excavations, shafts, etc.
30.66 Tipman means an employee at the tip head who directs where the material shall be tipped, assists in the tipping or keeps bank true to specified line and level.
30.67 Tree climber means an employee required to climb heights of over nine metres in trees to collect seed, measure heights or for other like purposes.
30.68 Trolley loader means an employee in the platelaying gang loading material from stack to trolley.
30.69 Tunneller 1 means an experienced tunneller who is engaged underground in the work of drilling, charging, firing, operating mucking loaders, timbering, placing steel supports, rock bolting, concrete vibrator hand, concrete gun operator or tending concrete chutes and conveyor belts.
30.70 Tunneller 2 means an employee engaged underground in the work of assisting Tunneller 1, car spotter, brakeman, operators of rotary car dumps, members of a bull gang or an employee carrying out any other general underground labouring in the course of tunnel excavation operations.
30.71 Union means The Australian Workers' Union.
30.72 Vermin and noxious weeds employee means an employee required to use spray materials, poisons and fumigants for the purpose of controlling vermin or noxious weeds and includes an employee trapping or snaring vermin.
30.73 Wagon trimmer at chute or stage or Chinaman means an employee in a tunnel or heading regulating the filling of material into wagons or other receptacles from any chute, stage or overhead structure such as is commonly known as a "Chinaman".
30.74 Wall builder means an employee cutting and facing stone and placing stone in position and who is responsible for line and direction.
