The CFMEU is escalating their campaign for more action against illegal importation of asbestos after the discovery of the cancer causing substance on a major Brisbane project on the weekend. The...
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Tougher coal dust controls, new and better testing, and better trained medicos are the backbone of a new regime to protect the health of the state’s 5500 underground coal miners. A day after...
The youngest miner to be diagnosed with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis could have had coal workers’ pneumoconiosis for nine years. Steve Mellor, 39, spoke about his recent diagnosis on ABC’s 7.30...
By Noel Hengelbrok, Safety Differently Many safety professionals may be supporting the proliferation of blame without knowing it. As we have found success in removing blame from the frontline...
A fourth case of black lung has been confirmed in less than a week, bringing the total number of coal miners diagnosed to 11. The Department of Natural Resources and Mines announced the latest victim...
Over the last month a number of light vehicle manufacturers have issued recall notices. Mitsubishi and Toyota have jointly recalled more than 750,000 passenger vehicles sold in Australia...
Workers at Chevron’s Gorgon project on Barrow Island were forced to stop work and evacuate due to a gas leak last week. Just before midnight on Friday, workers were told to leave the site after...
The National Transport Commission (NTC) today released proposed improvements to the Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail. Chief executive Paul Retter said the...
Three cases of black lung have been confirmed in as many days taking the total number of confirmed cases to 10. A 55-year-old underground coal mine worker was confirmed to have the deadly lung...
The Indonesian Government has come under fire by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for its “inaction” in dealing with more than 20 deaths at unused coal mine pits in five years...
Workers may have been exposed to hazardous chemicals such as lead and mercury while extracting gold at the Manuka Silver Mine, south of Cobar, NSW. The NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit reported...
Partners of fly-in fly-out workers have higher levels of emotional problems than other parents in the community, and are at a greater risk of using harsh discipline with their children, University of...
