CONSTRUCTION sites are risky environments and incidents such as Melbourne's triple fatal wall collapse can sometimes occur, the head of builder Grocon says.
Chief executive Daniel Grollo defended Grocon's overall safety record, saying it was a leader in the field of safety and has won national awards.
"Construction sites are a risky environment," he told the Nine Network on Friday.
"We work intensely with our teams to ensure that these incidents don't occur. On occasions, they do."
The wall collapse last month, which killed three people on Swanston Street, occurred on a Grollo construction site.
The City of Melbourne has said there was no permit issued for an advertising board fixed to the brick wall by Grocon.
But construction union boss Dave Noonan said he had been inundated with complaints about Grocon's safety record.
The union is planning a protest on Tuesday at the site of last month's wall collapse.
Mr Noonan said if the hoarding was safe the wall wouldn't have fallen over.
"Safety awards - we are not talking about the Logies here," he told the Nine Network in response to Mr Grollo's comments.
"We are talking about people's lives and we are inundated with complaints from Grocon sites about cranes working in high wind.
"This company is not conducting a safe enterprise. We do not have adequate safety on Grocon sites."
Mr Noonan said there had been two other examples of safety failures on Grocon sites: an impaling at the Myer Emporium site and a hoarding collapse in central Sydney.
But Mr Grollo said the hoarding collapse was three years ago.
"David, as you will know, and as the regulators said this morning in the Herald Sun, these incidents occur on construction," he said.
He said the union was politicising safety to justify an illegal, military-style campaign.
Victorian Premier Denis Napthine has condemned the proposed protest, saying the union should not pre-empt the outcomes of investigations into the incident for political purposes.
WorkSafe has not finished its investigation into how and why the brick wall collapsed and who, if anyone, is to blame.
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