Curtin University and Northern Territory-based researchers have found elevated electrical conductivity in creek water to be a reliable predictor of toxic seepage from a nearby mine’s tailings pond. “It’s a common problem in mine seepage to have a...
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Last year Australian laboratories confirmed more than 67,000 cases of influenza in the country – that’s more than the 2009 Flu Pandemic. Australians might be in for another bad season...
The Road Accident Action Group (RAAG) will be holding a free webinar on the risks of heavy vehicle rollovers over two Thursday’s in March. Designed specifically for road managers, mining and...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) have issued a number of notices to truck drivers in Western Australia who were found to be transporting dangerous good without the proper safety equipment...
WorkCover New South Wales SafeWork Awards, which recognises businesses and individuals that have made positive changes to workplace health and safety, are calling for entries for 2015. Any NSW...
One of Australia’s peak mining bodies has called on the Abbott Government to, “address the over-representation of ex-trade union officials,” within the Fair Work Commission (FWC)...
A worker who was rushed to hospital after being involved in Monday’s accident at Roy Hill’s Port Hedland Wharf has had his leg amputated. Port Hedland Seafarers Association chaplain Alan...
NSW Mine Safety is seeking public feedback on a draft electrical engineering control plan for the mining sector. The new code of practice explains how to, “…prepare, implement and review...
Forty years after an explosion at a Queensland coal mine killed his father, CQUniversity student, Errol Jones has finished a dramatic screenplay about the tragedy and its devastating aftermath...
Leaking radon from abandoned Soviet-era uranium mines has been discovered as the cause of a mysterious sleeping sickness that had been puzzling doctors for months. According to the Daily Mail...
In September last year, the peak body for Australia’s lighting industry released a practical guide for assessing LEDs and LED suppliers in response to growing concerns about unsafe and non-compliant...
One of Western Australia’s most notorious mining roads is now safer with the completion of safety upgrades to an 11 kilometre section of the Great Northern Highway. Traffic re-opened yesterday on the...
Disciplinary action against the driver of a water truck who inadvertently caused an accident at BHP’s Peak Downs mine has been deemed appropriate by the Fair Work Commission. The worker, Mr Julio...
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