The impact of stress-related illness in the mining sector is greater than many suspect, writes Helen Gibbons. To its credit, the mining industry is becoming increasingly aware that unmanaged mental stress is a significant risk factor to the health...
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Energy Australia has released a moving statement on the arc flash death of power station worker Graeme Edwards who suffered horrific fatal injuries after reinstalling a high-voltage circuit breaker...
In a serious incident this week a mobile drill rig was being trammed to the mine surface for routine maintenance. An operator identified that the machine needed to be realigned towards the centre of...
Komatsu will acquire Immersive technologies in a deal announced today. President and CEO: Hiroyuki Ogawa announced today, through its wholly owned subsidiary in Australia, it has agreed to acquire...
Lockouts for some isolator switches and motor control centres has long been a frustration across many industries. An Australian innovator has developed an isolation lockout device solution to improve...
Two miners have died in a Ukraine coal mine following a roof fall on 29th May 2019. The incident occurred at Lisova coal mine in Lviv region, western Ukraine. The miners were reportedly working at a...
A Safety Management System is supposed to be a systematic and proactive process for managing safety risks. Having a structured approach to safety management should complement and support good...
On June 14, 2003, a maintenance repair foreman, age 25, was fatally injured while changing liner plates in a jaw crusher. Salyards was inside the crusher positioning a wedge bar to secure the upper...
Immersive Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Queensland Government’s Simtars to jointly develop training and workforce development solutions for the Queensland...
GE Digital and Wabtec have announced a multiyear agreement to continue commercialisation of value-add applications such as Predix Operations Performance Management (OPM) and Predix Asset Performance...
A Chinese construction machinery manufacturer XCMG has successfully delivered an order of 12 XDE120 100T electric drive trucks to Australia, achieving another breakthrough in the mass export of large...
Australian company SPEE3D has developed the world’s first metal 3D printer leveraging supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D) technology to deliver manufacturing grade printing at production speeds. The...
The NSW mining industry will come under increased scrutiny next week after the NSW regulator announced a blitz on safety across the mining sector. “We will conduct a state-wide compliance blitz...