CAMERONWESTON
PEOPLE laid wreaths and paused for a minute of silence at the West Gate Bridge Memorial Park in Spotswood on Sunday, in memory of those who died during the bridge’s construction.
The great concrete slab of span 10-11 North gave way at 11.50am on 15 October 1970, killing 35 workers in what remains Australia’s worst industrial accident.
The exact moment of the collapse was marked with a solemn tribute to the fallen workers, followed by a call from Trades Hall boss Brian Boyd to learn from the past and strive to make work places safer in the future.
Mr Boyd said it had taken until 15 years after the West Gate disaster for formal occupational health and safety regulations to be made law, in 1985.
