Tag: OHSA
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Man in his 40’s dies after being crushed by falling tiles in Qormi
A man in his 40’s has died in a tragic workplace accident after being crushed by falling tiles in Qormi on Wednesday morning. The fatal incident happened at around 8.30am in Triq il-Wied, Qormi. Police officers, officials from the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OHSA), and a medical team were immediately dispatched to the scene.…
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The public inquiry into the death of Jean Paul Sofia makes many damning conclusions
I’m still going through the public inquiry into the death of Jean Paul Sofia, but clearly, it makes explicit damning conclusions. The public inquiry states that the heads of the regulatory entities had extensive conflicts of interest, did their work haphazardly and without any meaningful direction, and the Minister for Lands, Stefan ?rinzo Azzopardi didn’t…
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Construction and safety authorities have been weakened further after Jean-Paul Sofia’s death
Ever since the young construction worker, Jean-Paul Sofia, died at the illegal construction site run by Labour Party activists and Robert Abela’s friends, Robert Abela has successfully made sure to weaken even further the construction and safety and authorities. He has also opposed tooth and nail a public inquiry on Jean Paul Sofia’s death which…
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Updated: a magisterial inquiry is recommending criminal prosecution against WasteServ’s CEO over Joseph Ellul’s death
Updated. In Malta, someone always has the answer. Following my post earlier this morning, Jason Azzopardi published a Facebook post where he uploaded the conclusion of a magisterial inquiry on the death of Joseph Ellul. The inquiry concluded that WasteServ’s CEO Richard Bilocca has to be arraigned in court over criminal charges along with other…
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Works at Alfred Sant’s residence were halted by the Building and Construction Authority after the accident
It’s by coincidence that I have learned about this story, but the clarifications keep coming in. Sharon Penza, an OPM employee and daughter of Labour donor and contractor, Carmelo Penza, visited Alfred Sant’s house while OHSA officials were present after a worker was injured during construction works. The contractor doing the construction work was Carmelo…
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A part-time CEO for the Occupational Health & Safety Authority
The new OHSA CEO, Josianne Cutajar is fulfilling her duties on a part-time basis, barely being at her office and doing very little at all. She has briefed her senior managers telling them that she will “allow them to do all the work” since she is not qualified in the field. She is also allowed…
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Meet the new CEO of the OHSA: a Labour appointee with no experience in OHS
In the past few years, as we went through a Jungle Rules-styled construction boom, we have also witnessed an increasing rate of construction workers’ deaths. As a result, the Occupational Health and Safety Authority has been under scrutiny with its previous CEO Mark Gauci claiming that the authority was under fire by the Prime Minister…
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Enemalta CEO Jonathan Cardona is fired by Robert Abela
Since Robert Abela is too cowardly to do a cabinet reshuffle and consolidate his power over the cabinet, Robert Abela is implementing several underhanded moves to take control of Miriam Dalli’s Ministry for Energy. His first step was to appoint David Xuereb as a stakeholder mediator about the government’s oil procurement and distribution company called…
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Some important points that came out of David Xuereb’s testimony
Yesterday, David Xuereb gave a very brief testimony as Chairman of the Occupational Health and Safety Authority to the public inquiry of Jean-Paul Sofia. He is also a director at the Building and Construction Authority. The testimony was so curt that most of the important structural issues involving this case are being deliberately ignored. David…