FIVE years after Australia celebrated its major mining boom, the industry is slowly picking up again. Mental health is now clearly on the industry radar and mining suicide prevention is more relevant...
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Mine Safety Alert NZ: While reversing to tip his load on a stockpile, the driver of an ADT was partially blinded by sunlight and reversed up onto the edge of the stockpile. This made the loaded body...
Safety Institute of Australia Machinery operators and drivers had the highest fatality rate in 2017 at 7.1 fatalities per 100,000 workers, followed by labourers (4.6) and managers (1.7), according to...
Safety Institute of Australia Whilst there are many subtle differences between ISO 18001, AS/NZS 4801 and ISO 45001, there are a number of key changes which will potentially impact organisations...
Two men who were reported to have been stuck in a coal mine near Sydney have been rescued. The men, at the Tahmoor Colliery, near Bargo River Dr and Remembrance Dr, Tahmoor, were trapped up to 160m...
Flinders students William Tucker, Samantha Pandelus and Daniel Rossouw at Olympic Dam. (Fourth researcher Shaun Johns absent). Outback mine site research in South Australia is expanding in an...
Mining Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/01367 A mining dangerous incident has occurred. Summary: An excavator rolled onto its side when the ground gave way under the right-hand track. At the time...
Mining serious injury | SinNot 2018/01385 Summary: A mining serious injury occurred when an opal miner severed three fingers at the first knuckle on the right hand. The miner was adjusting a belt...
Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/01391 Summary: A fire occurred on an agitator truck in the decline of a metalliferous underground mine. The operator saw a glow on the decline wall and stopped to...
It has come to the attention of the Queensland Mines Inspectorate (QMI) that there is an issue with particular sampling devices widely used to monitor personal exposure to respirable dust and...
