A poll conducted by the Australian Drug Foundation has found that 10% of Victorian employees had either taken a day off and/or gone to work feeling the effects of their drug use. In a large sample of Victorian workers, drugs were identified as...
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This October is Safe Work Australia Month (safety month) – a time to promote the importance and raise the awareness of work health and safety in Australia. As part of safety month Safe Work Australia...
A pile of burning waste rock at Glencore’s McArthur River Mine is sending plumes of smoke into the air, angering nearby communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria area of the Northern Territory...
The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and Bisley Workwear are challenging Aussie mine workers to ditch their traditional high-vis workwear for pink high-vis as part of NBCF’s Real Men Wear...
1000 days injury free is no mean feat for any industry. Director of SAB Mining, Scott Browne, explains how his team was able to achieve this milestone on two of QCoal’s Bowen Basin mine sites...
Urban planners in South Australia will now need to give greater consideration to how close housing projects come to existing mining operations with this week’s release of the...
Pamela Lewis gives her tips on what mine workers can do to survive the rigors of shift work. Midnight. At a time when it’s difficult just to stay awake, you are expected to function at a reasonable...
A draft of an international Standard for responsible mining was released yesterday by the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), and is now available for public comment. The IRMA is a...
[tabs style=”boxed”] [tab title=”1 Us”] United States A proposal by OSHA that would require new and producing oil wells to satisfy process safety management standards that...
The team from Peabody’s North Wambo mine has taken out top honours at the 31st annual Hunter Valley underground Mines Rescue competition held at the Hunter Valley Mines Rescue station last Friday...
Safe Work Australia has released the Australian Workers’ Compensation Statistics 2011-12 report. This is the 20th annual report that uses the National Data Set for Compensation-based Statistics (NDS)...
Safe Work Australia is currently reviewing workplace blood lead removal levels, i.e. the levels at which a worker must be removed from lead risk work, and the associated workplace exposure standard...
[hr] The shocking fall and subsequent deaths in December last year of two maintenance workers at the Mt Lyell Copper Mine in Tasmania, made everyone in the safety industry catch their breath.[hr]...
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