Caterpillar has released its latest innovation in a battery electric LHD (load-haul-dump) vehicle platform. The new vehicle will be the Cat R1700 underground mining loader which is flagged as having...
Author - JOHN NINNESS
John is a safety professional with more than thirty years experience across a wide range of industries including mining & energy, manufacturing, defence, retail and food processing. He was the founder of Australasian Mine Safety Journal in 2005 and has worked to assist a broad range of Australian and international organisations manage work safety as a professional safety consultant and adviser. He has held a range of roles in large organisations including Corporate Safety Manager, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He was acknowledged in 2006 for his contribution to mining safety in the People's Republic of China through a China Friendship Award. John is the Principal of Australian based consulting company Safetysure.
A roof fall at a Victorian gold mine left a worker shaken and unable to do his job three years later a court has heard. Worker installing ground support hears thump and whoosh of air behind him. The...
Are you searching through for the latest regulatory information on mine safety or mining environmental protection in NSW? We have assembled the latest links to mining safety legislation, mining...
When we think malware or ransomware, we tend to think about dollars rather than human lives or safety. We tend to imagine the worst that can happen is a loss of money. Researchers recently found...
BHPs announcement to slash 700 jobs (as part of its transformational agenda) across its global workforce of around 62000 has sent a shiver through white-collar staff in its global offices. There’s a...
Sandvik, Rock Technology and IBM have joined forces to provide a range of advanced analytics to the mining industry that will aim to improve safety, maintenance and productivity across the industry...
Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific has been fined $250K and ordered to pay costs of around $30K after a guilty plea in the Perth Magistrates Court. The fine was related to the EWP death of 28-year-old Joshua...
Industrial artificial intelligence leader, Uptake, and Codelco, the world’s largest Copper producer, are working together to support Codelco’s digital transformation. Codelco will deploy...
The safety revelations surrounding the recent Boeing 737 Max crashes should make us stop and take a good hard look at whether available safety critical technology should be an option on many pieces...
The NSW Resources Regulator has advised of a dangerous incident during relining of a mill at a mine site. During a planned shutdown for the relining of a mill, a maintenance worker was slowly working...