A Queensland Industry Health & Safety Representative has told a Coal Mine Inquiry into the Grosvenor mine gas incident has spoken of a broken...
Regulator’s relationship with Industry Safety & Health Reps broken
The Moura mine disaster of 1994 is a case study in the failure of organisational learning and emergency knowledge management, writes Judith Ann Chapman. Just...
Sandvik employees have signed up for a vocational training course to boost their digital and networking skills to enhance safety across manufacturing and...
Mining companies, contractors and the mines regulators have been put on notice by Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, following day two...
The release of a Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management will help support the safe management of tailings facilities around the world. Australian...
The NSW Resources Regulator has reported that a mineworker was hit on the hard hat by falling roof material while installing ground support. The worker believes he was knocked unconscious for about...
A team of leading researchers will pilot a new model of care in Queensland’s Bowen Basin to improve mental health outcomes as the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic take hold. ...
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Amira Global has welcomed a $20 million investment by the West Australian government into the development of a robotics and automation test facility and precinct at Neerabup, north of Perth. The...
Earth Resources Regulation welcomes the tabling today of the Rehabilitating Mines Audit report from the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO). Earth Resources Regulation accepts the...
Technology will be a key focus of a new initiative that brings together a number of major Australian businesses and industry stakeholders to explore pathways to reducing emissions. On behalf of the...
A coalition of workplace health and safety-related organisations across Australia and New Zealand, and the ACTU called today for the urgent establishment of a register for approved respirators (aka...
Training for jobs in Australia’s critical mining industry is set to receive a boost with the commencement of the Mining Skills Organisation Pilot. The Mining Skills Organisation Pilot will assist in...
Last week we reported a light vehicle incident at the Glencore Ravensworth mine. The NSW Resources Regulator has released preliminary information on the Ravensworth light vehicle incident and an...
The Australian Institute of Health & Safety has implemented a range of initiatives which are designed to build clarity about the work of WHS practitioners, strengthen education and learning, grow...
Located in Swanbank near Ipswich, Queensland, is the now dormant Box Flat colliery. Just over 42 years ago the coal mine was fully operational, having been opened a mere three years prior in 1969 –...
Automation and robotics solutions provider, Scott Technology, has been awarded a further multi-million dollar contract by Rio Tinto to provide and commission the equipment for a new sample...
Instead of waiting until someone has been sexually harassed, employers should be required to change their culture proactively, Monash University researchers say.To complicate matters further...
