Employees who work more than 48 hours per week are more likely to engage in risky alcohol consumption than those who work standard weeks, finds a new study published in The BMJ today. Risky alcohol...
Category - Drugs and Alcohol
A new free app designed to help smokers stub out for good has been developed by the Government’s Quitline program. My QuitBuddy is a personalised app that provides a countdown to quit attempts...
An industry-wide drug sting began yesterday with major iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group assisting WA Police search employees and contractors travelling to FMG’s remote Christmas Creek mine...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has said a decision made earlier this year, to limit the use of urine testing for drugs and alcohol in the workplace, was a “significant error”. On Friday...
The vast majority of Queensland miners are not currently being tested for synthetic drugs, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. The report, which shows...
Compensation has been denied to a former mine employee who swapped shifts with a co-worker on the day of the 1994 Moura Mine disaster. In 2011 the man filed a claim with the Supreme Court of...
FIFO workers from mining and gas projects in south-west Queensland have been targeted for drug searches by police with sniffer dogs at Miles Airport. According to Surat Basin.com, nine flights were...
