A range of factors including poor road design, poor signage, bad lighting and an ‘over-reliance on administrative controls’ all contributed in the death of worker at Ravensworth mine in...
Category - Mine Design and Safety Engineering
Forty years after an explosion at a Queensland coal mine killed his father, CQUniversity student, Errol Jones has finished a dramatic screenplay about the tragedy and its devastating aftermath...
Poor engineering design which led to the collapse of an 80 tonne crane in 2013 has seen Etschmann Engineering slapped with a $16,000 fine and $5000 court costs. The company pled guilty to breaching...
NSW Mine Safety is seeking public comment on a new draft Code of Practice – Mechanical Engineering Control Plan. The draft code explains how to prepare, implement and review a mechanical...
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...
Safety professionals are being reminded that they only have until 30th January to comment on WorkSafe WA’s new Work Health and Safety Bill 2014. WorkSafe WA Commissioner Lex McCulloch said he...
At the Inquiry into the deaths of two mine company employees during a cyclone in 2007, a surveyor has admitted that his gross incompetence led to a workers camp being built in a high wind risk area...
A new study by Safe Work Australia has found 36 per cent of workplace fatalities examined were found to be associated with unsafe design of machinery, plant or powered tools. Safe Work Australia...
Before retrofitting or modifying high-pressure hydraulic lines on longwall mining equipment, it is important to apply safe hydraulic hose fitting and mounting principles, including the use of...
