Medical equipment repairs to continue while demolition takes place overhead.
Some staff from Adelaide’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital will have to keep working in a basement while demolition work is done above them. The Public Service Association (PSA) says 17 biomedical engineering staff who repair medical equipment – pacemakers, ventilators etc – will have work despite the noise, dust and vibration from demolition work on a four-storey building.
But CEO of the Central and Northern Adelaide Health Service Martin Turner says the distractions will not be as bad the PSA is suggesting.
He says noise will be minimised and should not affect the engineers’ ability to do their jobs.
“We’ve taken a lot of advice from our contractors, from SafeWork SA and from our own health and safety people and we are happy and satisfied that it’s appropriate for these workers to stay there during the demolition period,” he said.
Read the full story here.
