WA’s Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety recently issued a safety reminder to workers about the dangers of heat stress and working in high heat environments on mine sites and remote...
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Digger falls off bench. We have received an unconfirmed report that a BMA Caterpillar digger fell off a 6 metre bench at BMA’s Caval Ridge mine 17 km south of Moranbah. The incident reportedly...
Peabody have provided an update overnight on the previously reported North Goonyella mine fire and have advised that the Queensland Mines Rescue GAG is now being returned offsite. Peabody says that...
It wasn’t a great week at Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek mine last week when two vehicle incidents occurred on consecutive days. A collision incident and a fire incident. According to available...
The Fair Work Commission has now inserted casual conversion clauses (converting from casual) into a number of modern awards. It is important to be aware that if a modern award applies to casual...
While the Christmas holiday season may be a time of celebration and relaxation, companies and employees are being urged to slow down and put work safety first. Incident trends have tended to increase...
The DMIRS has advised that during April this year, a worker was exposed to potentially serious injuries when a handrail latch failed, causing a handrail gate to swing open and the operator narrowly...
More than three hundred miners have died in ten years in Pakistan coal mines according to a Pakistan news source. In less than three months another accident in one of the coal mines of Pakistan...
The arc flash risks of working on live electrical equipment have been well known throughout the mining and general industry for many years, yet too many incidents still occur with tragic consequences...
An incident investigation report released this week revealed the tragic circumstances where a colliery worker sustained a fatal crush to his head during cleaning out of a trailer. Stephen Norman, 53...
The NSW Resources Regulator has confirmed that thirty incidents occurred at mines across the state. One incident this week occurred where a mine worker was injured while trying to stop a runaway...
There’s still plenty of challenges in managing the environmental aspects of Glencore’s McArthur River Zinc Lead operation according to to an independent monitor’s report. NT...
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