ANF: West Australian's weight makes delivery dangerous
By Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 28 September 2007 at 22:25 :: Circulaton & Distribution :: #629 :: rss
Some editions of The West Australian are so heavy that home delivering them is becoming an occupational health and safety hazard.
“Newsagents are not meant to be throwing papers that weigh more than 600g and they're throwing papers weighing 1.2kg,” Rayma Creswell, Australian Newsagents' Federation chief executive, told the Australian, according to an article Thursday.
The paper's weight is one of the issues the ANF wants to discuss with publisher West Australian Newspapers.
Creswell said one way to fix the problem is to split large papers into more sections.
“We're not saying 'create a paper that is specifically designed for us,' but we're saying it is an issue,” she told the Australian.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission gave the ANF permission to bargain on behalf of about 380 newsagents for the West Australian, despite Western Australian Newspapers, the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores and the Queensland Newsagents Federation objecting.
“We don't have any problem with the ANF contributing ideas, but we're not seeing them as a collective bargaining agent,” Ken Steinke, Western Australian Newspapers, chief executive told the Australian. “We have individual contracts with individual distributors ... We start from a different premise (than the ANF): what is in the best interests of our customers. We wouldn't do anything that would see costs increase to our customers or our services decrease.”
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