A new safety campaign by Arrium Mining and OneSteel Whyalla has its employees starring in ‘Living Safely With Electricity’, a video with a message about electricity: it can be fatal, and...
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A 58-year-old protester locked himself to a coal train near the controversial Maules Creek coal mine last night, effectively stopping the mine’s first shipment of coal from getting to...
The new health and safety law for NSW mining has been published and is now available online for the first time. The Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulation 2014, together with the Work Health and...
A worker at Middlemount’s Grasstree mine was reportedly crushed to death overnight when an underground wall collapsed on top of the 45-year-old man. According to the ABC, police say the miner...
Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has received dozens of incident reports involving the use of mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) over the past 18 months. According to...
At the Inquiry into the deaths of two mine company employees during a cyclone in 2007, a surveyor has admitted that his gross incompetence led to a workers camp being built in a high wind risk area...
Two members of the NSW Mines Rescue team were invited as expert international guests to the inaugural New Zealand Mines Rescue competition held at Newmont Waihi Gold last week. David Connell...
Last week, Turkey’s Parliament finally approved the ILO Convention 176 on safety and health in mines after a year that saw over 300 Turkish mine workers perish in preventable mine disasters. Global...
Mines in NSW are being encouraged to register their business with Work Cover NSW’s latest health and safety initiative, Get Healthy at Work. As a free, government-sponsored service, Get Healthy...
Are you being bullied in the workplace? You have rights and you don’t have to take it. We all know that bullies are sad, insecure people, who may or may not, have mummy issues. They are also...
