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...
Category - MANAGING MINING RISKS
Despite five tragic deaths, the overall LTI frequency rate in Western Australia’s mining sector improved by 8 per cent in the 2013-14 financial year, according to new statistics released by the...
Safe Work Australia Chief Executive Officer Michelle Baxter is encouraging all Australians to make work health and safety their 2015 New Year’s resolution. “The beginning of the year signifies the...
Workers at the Roy Hill mine construction site in the Pilbara were rocked by news this week that a piece of fruit at the site canteen was found to be laced with cyanide. The disturbing discovery was...
Two gas company supervisors have been prosecuted for breaches of the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 (P&G Act) over separate incidents in which workers were injured at gas...
Thankfully, the days of miner’s succumbing to the dreaded ‘black lung’ by the age of 30 are far behind us, however lung health is still a very pressing health and safety issue for...
Six sets of safety rules around the handling of dangerous goods in Western Australia will soon be rolled into one under a new program of legislation reform. Announcing the wide-ranging reforms last...
A 58-year-old protester locked himself to a coal train near the controversial Maules Creek coal mine last night, effectively stopping the mine’s first shipment of coal from getting to...
The new health and safety law for NSW mining has been published and is now available online for the first time. The Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulation 2014, together with the Work Health and...
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...
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...
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...
