Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has received dozens of incident reports involving the use of mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) over the past 18 months. According to...
Category - Incident Prevention/Mitigation
Mine companies are not doing enough to prevent permanent injury to workers who operate high vibrating machinery, and are putting productivity targets before workers welfare, according to an expert in...
A section of the Koolan Island iron ore mine off the Kimberley coast of WA is now flooded to sea level after it’s sea wall collapsed on Tuesday. No one was injured by the breach and all non...
An incorrectly installed ladder led to a worker at an open cut coal mine sustaining spinal injuries when he fell from a grader, according to a new report from NSW Mines Safety. The report states that...
There were 28 work-related notifiable fatalities during the month of August according to a monthly report from Safe Work Australia. This figure represents a worrying 50 per cent increase on the...
Inadequate procedures for the operation of a kibble led to the death of a worker at the CSA Cobar mine in March 2013, according to mine accident investigators. At around 4:20am on 16 March 2013 a...
In safety circles the term “as low as reasonably practicable – or ALARP” is often used. But what does it actually mean for major hazard and petroleum facilities? The answer to this question was the...
Resources Safety has launched a new video series to help supervisors and workers recognise workplace hazards that have injured or killed people in Western Australia’s resources industry. The videos...
Between 2010-2013 statistics showed that safety within the mining industry was improving, with the recorded number of fatalities remaining low when compared to the years prior. However, a spike of...
Bulga Underground Operations has been found responsible for an incident at the Beltana coal mine in 2010 that saw a worker sustain severe crush injuries. According to the Newcastle Herald the worker...
A coronial inquest into the death of a man at a Santos drilling site in Queensland has been told that the industry has gone back to the “dark old days”. Justin Smith, former drill rig...
The driver of a four wheel drive had a lucky escape after a train carrying manganese ploughed into his vehicle near Katherine in the Northern Territory. According to the NT News, the train was...
