Transport and heavy resource companies are spending more money and time implementing state of the art technology and innovative safety management systems; improving HR, training, risk management and...
Category - Compliance
A company director of a roofing company was found guilty yesterday of ‘reckless conduct’ following the death of a roofer has been jailed and fined $1 million. The roofer fell from a...
Australian mining operations are heavily focused on getting miners safe to work and they’re spending money on safe transport initiatives for the bus in bus out (BIBO) operations. The...
UPDATED 6/2/2019 An operator was ejected from the door of a Load Haul Dump at a metalliferous mine when a parking brake was inadvertently engaged. According to available regulator reports, a load...
The operator of a quarry in Victoria has been convicted and fined $230,000 after a driver was killed when his vehicle rolled on a stockpile in May 2016. Keilor Melton Quarries Pty Ltd was sentenced...
In a scene vaguely reminiscent of the Australian comedy Mining Boom ‘Dropped Objects’, a work team has dropped a section of pipe allowing it to fall 4.4 metres below their work area. The...
Media reports say that a ‘Crane rolled at the Callide Mine’ last Friday morning. The crane rollover resulted in the transfer of an operator to a hospital. A Queensland Ambulance Services...
The Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety has announced performance benchmarks for mine safety inspection and compliance activities across the WA mining industry for...
A 72-year-old woman from Latrobe Valley Scrap Metal is believed to be the first person sentenced to prison in Australia under the breach of duty provisions of occupational health and safety...
The Queensland mining industry has farewelled Big Al (Allan Houston) in a moving service in Rockhampton on Monday. Allan was tragically killed in a dozer incident at the Saraji Mine on New...
Australia’s mining monthly safety incident statistics are causing regulators across the Australian mining industry to take a hard look at mine safety practices over the forthcoming year. With...
The Queensland Government has recently increased maximum penalties for court-based prosecutions of up to $3.9 million for mining corporations and $783,300 or 3 years imprisonment for individuals for...
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