With severe weather warnings and localised flooding across Queensland and many parts of the country, motorists are being reminded that if it’s flooded – forget it. There is currently a...
Category - MANAGING MINING RISKS
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 blue alert has been issued for the mining towns of Port Hedland and Karratha due to concern that a tropical low off the northern coast of Western Australia could develop into a category 2 cyclone...
A mine worker who tested positive to methylamphetamine during a routine mine site drug test has told the Fair Work Commission that she believes her drink was spiked during a hotel drinking binge...
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...
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...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has investigated allegations of a gas leak at Buru Energy’s Yulleroo 2 gas well in the Kimberley. DMP Executive Director Petroleum Jeff Haworth said that...
A Second on Safety with David G Broadbent When I first started my working life as a Metallurgist at the BHP (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) Steelworks in 1980, one of the first departments I was assigned...
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...
