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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Workers at Sydney’s Barangaroo project shouldn’t resume work until formal procedures to prevent asbestos exposure are put in writing, the construction union says.
About 150 workers were removed from the site in central Sydney on Tuesday morning after the Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) detected asbestos during a site inspection.
A stop work meeting at the site about 7am (AEST) on Wednesday morning is due to end at 11am.
CFMEU NSW State Secretary Brian Parker says he’s confident work won’t resume until a formal report has been completed by an independent occupational hygienist.
“We want the procedures in writing, to say what the procedures are and how they’re going to be carried out, so that there is no further exposure,” Mr Parker told AAP.
Site manager Land Lease says it employs monitoring devices to detect asbestos throughout the site, but Mr Parker says there were no monitors in the locations where the asbestos was found on Tuesday and previous testing has been “insufficient”.
“We certainly didn’t find any monitors in the locations where we found asbestos yesterday,” he said on Wednesday.
He says there have been numerous other detections of the material on site but workers claim nothing has been done about it.
Land Lease said on Tuesday it informs all workers of the dangers of asbestos as part of induction processes, but Mr Parker said none of the workers the CFMEU spoke to have received any training on how to work with the dangerous material.
“They certainly haven’t had any asbestos training, not the 150 workers we spoke to,” he said.
All workers will be tested with lung functioning tests and chest X-rays for asbestos exposure, a process that could take months.
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