Heavy mobile equipment (HME) operators crashed into and severely damaged multiple light vehicles at Queensland mines. Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) recently investigated two high...
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Local contractors and suppliers will benefit from a national commitment to extract commodities domestically. The Federal Government recently confirmed it will attract more mineral processing...
Companies would be much more innovative if they took a chance more often, a previous political leader said. Malcolm Turnbull believes the national innovation sector would be much stronger if there...
Authorities investigated how light machinery overturned and crushed an employee. WorkSafe officials recently examined what circumstances led to a 2.7 tonne utility compactor falling off a tilt tray...
Mining operators should be severely punished for multiple remote worker fatalities, an advocate said. Management has no excuse for a rock fall killing a drilling contractor at Gold Fields’ St...
A mineral producer is gradually returning to businesses as usual, following a devastating mine fatality. Gold Fields recently confirmed operations have partially resumed at its St Ives mine, 80km...
Authorities revealed remote resources employees were among the industry’s latest fatalities. The Western Australian Police Force recently confirmed a MACA employee who died at Capricorn...
Authorities are trying to determine how a resources worker died within days of a different on-the-job incident. WorkSafe investigators are examining factors that led to a contractor passing away at...
Officials are examining how a resources employee passed away at an underground operation. One contractor recently died and a colleague suffered minor injuries at Gold Fields’ St Ives Mine, 80km...
A surface mining incident was blamed for causing many months of interruptions. A dozer recently fell down the side of an open pit at Premier Coal’s Collie Coal Mine, 200km southeast of Perth...
Authorities are prepared to pay big money for details on how a resources employee died. Anyone with credible information about the fatality of Paul Murray could be rewarded with $500,000. The 40-year...
A mine employee was crushed because he was neither paying attention nor practising workplace safety, investigators found. An underground shift worker was hospitalised after being pinned between a rib...
