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The Offshore Alliance of the Maritime Union of Australia and the Australian Workers Union covers workers on oil and gas platforms and vessels off the Australian coast.

Industrial Relations

UGL pushed spurious safety risks at Chevron’s Gorgon to kill industrial action

Maintenance contractor UGL has used a clause designed to ensure safety during a strike at Chevron's Gorgon LNG to portray the industrial action as illegal.

Safety

Gorgon workers left waiting for mercury contamination results

Safety regulator WorkSafe does not know when it will receive test results so four workers on Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant will know if they have received an unsafe exposure to toxic mercury.

COVID-19

Unions call on Inpex to improve travel to Ichthys

Unions want Inpex to return to the pre-COVID practice of flying workers through Broome, not the remote Truscott airstrip.

COVID-19

Shell tells Prelude LNG workers to isolate in their own time

To reduce the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak offshore Shell has told its Prelude LNG workforce to spend half their leave in quarantine

Woodside Petroleum

Woodside dumps 12-week work roster

Woodside has dropped plans for a 12-week work roster blasted by unions as "catastrophically unsafe" and will move to a temporary roster of two weeks of isolation, four weeks work and two weeks at home to manage COVID-19 risk.

Woodside Petroleum

Woodside offers workers big bucks as inspiration against exhaustion

Woodside's offshore workers may get a $50,000 bonus for working 12 weeks straight but unions claim the long stint is unsafe.

Inpex

New virus roster at Inpex: isolation, offshore, home

Offshore unions have welcomed a deal with Inpex that adds two-weeks of isolation to the roster and gives half-pay to stood-down workers but slammed what they say is a Woodside proposal to work offshore for 12 weeks straight.