Mining companies are being asked to step up their coronavirus protections for miners including fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers, staff in mining camps and remote and regional resource communities...
Category - GOVERNMENT & LEGISLATION
The Environment Protection Authority has fined Origin Energy Eraring Pty Ltd $15,000 over alleged dust emissions from the Eraring Power Station at Lake Macquarie in October last year. EPA Regional...
Mining safety complaints to the mining safety regulator have risen substantially in Queensland according to the Minister responsible for Mining Safety, Dr Anthony Lynham. Dr Lynham said today that...
A Queensland mine safety bureaucrat has updated a position on statements made to a Parliamentary Committee. Executive Director Mark Stone, was asked during an inquiry into the Mineral and Energy...
The Queensland Parliament has approved the creation of a new mine safety authority today. The move comes following a spate of deaths and a hundred of high potential incidents in the Queensland mining...
A Queensland top mine safety bureaucrat has told a Parliamentary Committee into the Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2020, that the Department’s Mines...
The Queensland Government’s push for changes to mining safety legislation has come under fire from big miners, individuals and a range of leading organisations that will be responsible for applying...
The NSW Government has proposed a range of reforms for work health and safety laws in a new Bill that will see a range of significant changes including the incorporation of manslaughter prosecutions...
A former Anglo Coal, Mine Supervising Officer has been asked a range of probing questions in the inquest into the death of Paul McGuire in Mackay today. The coroner heard CFMEU Counsel Gavin Rebetzke...
There has been a long held perception in the mining industry that lost time injury and lost time injury frequency rates fail to report the real state of safety in the industry. As many appreciate, a...
There were 24 mining fatalities in the United States of America in 2019, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reports. This is the fewest annual fatalities ever recorded, and only...
The Queensland Parliament has heard that the Minister responsible for mine safety, Dr Anthony Lynham failed to use existing powers to investigate fatal mining accidents. In an address to Queensland...
