Absolutely, when I worked for regional power, the guys same for same were being paid less, than those in major power stations.From a purely personal perspective, well I expect that by the time I'm dead the longest hours I'll ever have put in at work will have been for government not private. Government tends to be more laid back on average but when trouble strikes the workers do go to extremes that the private sector baulks at.
Where it can go wrong is when the two are combined.Some things are better done by government, other things are better done by private IMO, these are usually differentiated by whether it is an essential service or a cost driven service.
That's not planning for our probable energy future.Why would Canberra(taxpayer) be the coal bank, much better to build a high efficiency gas plant, to hold the coal plants to account IMO.
That is a given, it is crazy to keep building solar/wind farms, without complimentary storage, all it is doing is adding to the problem. The down side is it may well make the project cost prohibitive, but I personally doubt it, the operational savings with renewables would still be attractive IMO.For example, adopt a levelling of the playing field approach for generators whereby renewables compete on terms that require them to also carry dispatchable power in any of the non-ff storage formats. Amend the RET scheme accordingly.
From a purely personal perspective, well I expect that by the time I'm dead the longest hours I'll ever have put in at work will have been for government not private. Government tends to be more laid back on average but when trouble strikes the workers do go to extremes that the private sector baulks at.
I suspect it's one of those things where a lot depends on the individuals involved, management as well as workers, and their workplace.Different from my experience private always worked extreme hours, government (state) long hours as required how ever both groups were committed.
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I worked in regional power stations, from 85 to 89, did a couple of jobs at Esperance one when we started using MFO on the diesels, never heard of the shifter accident.Different from my experience private always worked extreme hours, government (state) long hours as required how ever both groups were committed.
Health and safety act help wind the hours back in later years in the private world.
In terms of risk for the workers most big constructions sites had usually 2 to 3 dead body allowance (mid to late 70's) along with SECWA who accepted around 3 dead linemen a year.
81 I think it was SECWA sacked the safety department heads and decided dying on the job was a bad thing and went on a massive culture change of attitude to risk and live line work thankfully dropping the death rate of its workers.
Smurf worked for SECWA (81) when a young bloke dropped his 12 inch shifter across live terminals at the Esperance power station. Severe burns in hospital and the department management tried to get him to sign a document (in his hospital bed) saying he wasn't instructed to do the work when in fact he had been told to needless to say he didn't sign.
I heard all this second hand but maybe Esperance power station is that sort of place
Always bad to hear of any accident in any workplace no matter who owns it or who's involved.But I do know that exact accident happened
News report here:Meanwhile Yallourn W, second largest power station in Vic, 3 or 4 units now shut down in an orderly manner, other one still on for the moment. Floods.
You're mixing up power stations there....It sounds like Yallourn has more problems, than just the catastrophic damage to one unit
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