AN170096 – Silviculture and Afforestation Award

PART VIII - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, TOOLS AND AMENITIES 

1. CLOTHING AND SPECTACLES

(a) An employee whose clothes, spectacles or hearing aids have been accidentally spoilt by acid, sulphur or other deleterious substances, shall be paid such amount to cover the loss thereby suffered by him/her as may be agreed upon between him/her and his employer.

(b) An employee shall be reimbursed by his employer to a maximum of $1,110.00 for loss of clothes by fire or breaking and entering whilst securely stored at the employer's direction in a room or building on the employer's premises, job or workshop or in a lock-up.

(c) Where safety glasses are to be worn at the direction of the employer such glasses shall be provided free of charge to each employee and where it is necessary for optically prescribed glasses to be hardened, the cost of such hardening shall be met by the employer.

(d) Where an employee during the course of his employment suffers loss or damage to his spectacles by cause for which he/she is not solely responsible he/she shall be compensated by the employer to the extent of the loss or damage sustained. This subclause shall not apply when an employee is entitled to workers' compensation in respect to the damage.