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US Court sides with mineworkers over safety amendment

Washington — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has vacated a 2018 amendment to a 2017 Mine Safety and Health Administration rule that allowed a competent person to...

Chines coal mine accident has killed nine

China coal mine accident kills nine

A coal mine accident in China’s northeastern Jilin Province that occurred in the late hours on June 9 left nine dead and 10 injured, said a local district government in a statement. The incident is...

risk avoidance research and locus of control

Mine safety research and risk avoidance

A new US mine safety research paper has shone a light on key issues associated with education and risk avoidance. The paper entitled The role of risk avoidance and locus of control in workers’ near...

BHP has established a tailing taskforce in the wake of brumadinho disaster

BHP sets up tailings taskforce

Global miner BHP Group said today that it has set up a tailings taskforce to further improve the focus on internal dam management and boost safety following Vale’s Brumadinho dam disaster in...

Short interval control guidelines have been published to assist mines to minimise errors with the process

Short interval control guidelines published

The Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) has published the Guideline for Implementing Short Interval Control in Underground Mining Operations.  Short interval control (SIC) is a structured system in...

Caterpillar autonomous solutions to improve safety in mining

Caterpillar autonomous applications to improve safety

Mining operations must balance challenges – increasing efficiency and productivity and machine uptime while reducing costs and boosting operator safety. Autonomous applications could be the answer...

Light vehicle in rollover at NSW Mine

Light vehicle in rollover

A light vehicle rollover has occurred at an open cut coal mine in New South Wales. The light vehicle was exiting a crib hut park-up area. As it turned onto the road, the driver was distracted by a...

new solar regulations requiring only electricians to install solar panels squashed by Queensland COurt

Queensland solar regulations disallowed by Court

New solar regulations that regulated who can mount, locate, fix or remove solar panels in a solar farm of 100kW or greater have been disallowed by the Queensland Supreme Court. The Electrical Safety...