Queensland Resources Safety & Health has released an incident report regarding a mine worker being seriously burned in an explosion in a truck cabin. On 11 January 2021, a serious accident occurred while a mine worker was driving a truck in an...
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The NSW Resources Regulator has reported an incident of a haul truck engine fire in an underground metals mine. According to the report, while driving to the surface park up area, approximately 100...
A number of changes to the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (SA) come into effect on 1 January 2021. This includes changes to air monitoring during asbestos removal work, chemical labelling...
Safe Work Australia has released workers’ compensation statistics 2018–2019 report. There was a total of 114,435 serious workers’ compensation claims. The statistics in the report are of Australian...
To continue keeping WA safe, wearing a face mask is now mandatory in Western Australia while: at an airporttravelling on aircrafttransporting a person subject to a quarantine direction (e.g. in a...
SafeWork SA has launched a safety campaign in 2021 to reduce musculoskeletal injuries and slips, trips and falls across the Road Freight Transport industry. According to Safe Work Australia...
Tropical Cyclone Kimi in Queensland’s North may be upgraded to at least a category 2 cyclone later today with winds expected up to 140km/h. The weather bureau has confirmed that the cyclone...
The NSW Resources Regulator has reported an accident at an open cut coal mine where a light vehicle being driven by a contractor collided with a barrier on the edge of a mine access road. The barrier...
MINE WORKER TO MINE BOSS – It is common for many employees in the mining industry to start at the grass-roots level and transition to a range of supervisory and management roles in various...
Queensland mines are on alert following a Bureau of Meteorology announcement that confirmed at Category one tropical cyclone will hit the coast on Monday. Tropical Cyclone Kimi is likely to affect...
(Reuters) – China’s Shandong provincial authorities have sacked two top government officials in the city of Qixia following Sunday’s explosion at a gold mine in the area that left 22 workers...
In 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reports there were 29 mining fatalities, making it the sixth consecutive year that mining fatalities were...
Queensland Resources Council (QRC) Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said the QRC will continue to work with the Chief Health Officer (CHO), QRC members and the Queensland Government to provide feedback...