Mines in Western Australia are being warned to check their high voltage switches amid growing concern that some sites are using the same switch at the centre of the Perth shopping centre explosion...
Category - Incident Prevention/Mitigation
Now is the time to review health and safety issues in the workplace, before the year gets into full swing, according to the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA). APA National President and...
A Safety Alert has been issued over an incident in which a tradesman suffered second degree burns on his right hand, after drilling into an enclosed excavator counterweight and causing a gas...
A Significant Incident Report has been issued after a worker at a WA mine lost his balance on a mobile screening plant and fell over six metres to the ground. The incident happened after a supervisor...
Talk about embarrassing – a crane has toppled over in front of a safety inspector at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine construction site in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The incident...
A mine worker has broken his foot 5 kilometres underground at the Dendrobium mine at Mount Kembla in New South Wales. According to the Illawarra Mercury the incident occurred this morning when a...
Two prohibition safety notices have been issued to Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine project in Western Australia. The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) issued the notices after concerns were...
The Common Sense Complaint If only I had a dollar for every time someone has complained about the loss of common sense when talking about safety in general, and more particularly about safety...
An increase in the number of rollover incidents of load shifting plant recently has led to NSW Mine Safety issuing a Safety Bulletin. Most of the incidents led to operators suffering minor injuries...
Source: Department of Mines and Petroleum, Resources Safety 22 December 2014 Summary of hazard Over the past three years, the Department of Mines and Petroleum has received more than 160 electric...
The Coal Services Health & Safety Trust is now inviting applications for grants to fund initiatives designed to improve the health and wellbeing of coal mine workers. Researchers, mine...
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...
