BIGWU calls for suspension of crane transfers after offshore mishap

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The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) has called for the sus­pen­sion of crane trans­fers of per­son­nel wher­ev­er the safe­ty of such op­er­a­tions has not been in­de­pen­dent­ly ver­i­fied, fol­low­ing a crane col­lapse at Peren­co’s Samaan Al­pha drilling plat­form which left a work­er in­jured on Wednes­day.

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The union’s call comes amid broad­er con­cerns raised by work­ers in the en­er­gy sec­tor about a range of labour and work­place safe­ty is­sues, in­clud­ing the pro­vi­sion of per­son­al pro­tec­tive equip­ment, fa­tigue man­age­ment, con­trac­tu­al dis­putes and the treat­ment of em­ploy­ees who raise safe­ty con­cerns.