If businesses are to prevent accidents at work they need to completely overhaul health and safety management, according to presenters at the Fluoro Conference being held in Perth. Safety...
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The International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO) launched the Global Capability Framework for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals at the Fluoro Conference...
An investigation report into the deaths of two men at Austar Coal Mine in 2014 has been released by the NSW Government. The men, James Mitchell, 49, and Phillip Grant, 35, died on April 15, 2014...
Seven fly-in fly-out workers from the Inpex Ichthys gas project in Darwin have taken their own life in the past three years, leading to Northern Territory trade unions calling for a FIFO code of...
Premier Coal has pulled an entire fleet of mine trucks out of action at it’s Collie site after five fires in three weeks. Two weeks ago a truck burst into flames at the mine, with four other...
Mount Gibson Iron is suing an engineering firm after a seawall collapse at Koolan Island mine in WA. The junior miner and subsidiaries, Aztec Resources and Koolan Iron Ore, have lodged a writ in the...
Managers can find it difficult to know how to take the right kind of early action to control the risk of psychological injuries in their workplace, but WorkCover Queensland have released some helpful...
While National Safe Work Month 2015 and the Virtual Seminar Series have come to an end, Safe Work Australia’s chief executive officer Michelle Baxter has urged individuals and workplaces to continue...
Mine site environmental specialist Phil Abernethy takes a look at international and Commonwealth laws that can impact on mining activities. ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION BACKGROUND Historically...
Five local businesses and projects have been praised for their efforts to reduce the risk of work-related injury and disease across Western Australia. Commerce Minister Michael Mischin announced the...
Uncertainty is a crippling and debilitating thing, and sadly these days many people are finding themselves in exactly that state in the workplace, Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland’s Tony...
Professor David Cliff writes about OHS in the minerals industry in the 21st century. Great progress has been made in reducing accidents and incidents in the mining industry. Large highly mechanised...
