Industry Allowance - Operations and Outdoor employees (Bands 1 - 6) only In addition to the rates prescribed in clause 12.5 (Minimum Rates and Classifications), an employee engaged on any of the work specified below will be paid an allowance specified in Table 2 to compensate for all adverse conditions associated with working outdoors, and/or for moderately obnoxious, offensive or dirty working conditions, including: • climatic conditions when working in the open on all types of work, including in wet places • climbing stairs or ladders or work in confined or cramped spaces • dust blowing in the wind on construction sites and similar disability to employees engaged on maintenance of roadways, footways, etc • working in dusty, muddy or dirty conditions, including sloppy or muddy conditions associated with all types of construction and maintenance • drippings from newly poured concrete • working at heights on all types of scaffold and using temporary structures, and makeshift appliances having regard to the requirements of the job • working in hot places (including at temperatures artificially raised above 450 Celsius) • cleaning of public toilets and animal shelters • operating mechanical and pneumatic equipment • removing and/or destroying dead animals* (*this Allowance incorporates and replaces the Dead Animals Allowance from superseded Council Enterprise Agreements and the former Victorian Local Government Award 2001) • handling or use of herbicides, insecticides and/or other poisonous or toxic substances • working with dirty materials such as asphalt, concrete, epoxy compounds, green or second- hand timber, insulation materials, grease, oil and other dirty building and construction materials • collection, removal and/or disposal of non-putrescible waste, including by mechanical means • fighting fires • the lack of usual amenities at the work site. The Industry Allowance will not apply to the employees in the following categories of employment: • Baths/Swimming Pool/Recreation Centre Attendant Chlorinating or Non Chlorinating • Storeperson (where the Storeperson as part of their full-time duties is required to regularly work in any of the abovementioned conditions, the allowance will be paid). The Industry Allowance is incorporated in the minimum pay rates set out in Appendix 1, and not paid as a separate specific allowance.
