A US researcher has found that working a shift longer than 9 hours was associated with a 32% increased risk of an injury resulting in death and a 73% increased risk that an incident would cause...
Category - MINING HAZARDS
This section covers hazards associated with surface and underground mining.
The NSW Resources Regulator has issued an alert on a dozer fire at a NSW open cut mine where fan operator escaped with minor injuries. According to the report, the operator decided to relocate the...
Peabody Energy has confirmed management changes at the North Goonyella mine in the wake of the mine fire which closed the mine in September last year. In an exclusive statement issued to AMSJ...
Findings from the recent government enquiry into Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis in Queensland led to recommendations for reduction in current Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) for respirable dust. The...
There are new technical requirements for RPA, commonly known as drones. The new rules are contained in Part 101 (Unmanned Aircraft and Rockets) Manual of Standards (MOS) 2019. Primarily they effect...
Fatigue can be identified as ‘level above’ being tired. It is a level of exhaustion, both mental and physical, that hampers a persons ability to function. This becomes a major health and safety...
A new Australian mining ventilation innovation gains a global audience this month when Minetek Chief Engineer Remy Bourcier addresses delegates at the North American Mine Ventilation Symposium...
A roof fall at a Victorian gold mine left a worker shaken and unable to do his job three years later a court has heard. Worker installing ground support hears thump and whoosh of air behind him. The...
Four mine workers have been killed in an underground coal mine explosion in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A further two mine workers have been recovered from the mine alive...
A Port of Dampier fire in a screen house that occurred on Saturday night has been confirmed by Rio Tinto. The fire was contained to the screen house at its East Intercourse Island port operation...
Peabody Energy’s Metropolitan Colliery gas incident preliminary report has been released by the NSW Regulator. The gas incident, which occurred on the 21st March 2019 at the Metropolitan...
A coal mine that has operated for more than a century will be forced to shut down because state authorities have banned mining activities due to mine safety concerns. A number of roof falls, conveyor...
