Roofing Company Fined $3000 After Apprentice Falls from Roof:

A roofing company was convicted and fined after a 16 year old first year apprentice roof tiler fell 4.5 metres from a metal beam to a bitumen road surface in Chirnside Park on 4 October 1999. At the time of the incident, the apprentice and two other workers were installing temporary guardrailing. Rather than using a scaffold or an elevated work platform, the men were working from ladders and from the unfinished roof without safety harness systems.