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Mature-age workers are an OHS asset, not OHS risk
Employers that see older workers as an OHS risk are "ill informed and ignorant," according to the CFMEU's Dave Noonan, who says most mature-age construction workers have more OHS knowledge than a university graduate "still wet behind the ears".
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