Safety at work affects everyone – workers, their families, businesses, and our community. October is National Safe Work Month, a time to commit to building and maintaining safe and healthy workplaces. This year’s theme is Work Health and Safety...
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Queensland will introduce free, mandatory lung health checks for a broad range of mine workers in the metalliferous and quarry sector from today. While the mandatory health checks had been previously...
The NSW mine safety regulator “Resources Regulator” has issued its annual report on activities for the 2018/209 period. The report provides detail on the range incidents and two...
The Western Australian mine safety regulator has highlighted risks of using rope access systems on mine walls when undertaking scaling operations. the warning comes after a range of incidents across...
Pike River Recovery Agency has announced that mine workers are back working underground following the recent withdrawal due to the presence of “products of combustion”. A couple of weeks...
An Australian mask manufacturer producing millions of medical-grade face masks has reassured Queenslanders it can keep up with demand for face masks from that State. Softmed, a privately owned...
Plan of Incident Location Worksafe Victoria is issuing a reminder about the importance of managing the risks associated with rock falls whilst developing headings in underground mines. An employee...
Engineers at Australia’s Monash University have developed world-first technology that can help industry identify and export high quality graphene cheaper, faster and more accurately than current...
Fortescue Metals Group’s (FMG) total recordable injury frequency rate has dropped by 14 per cent in the 12 months to June 30. The iron ore major’s full year results for the 2020 financial year saw...
Member for Burdekin and Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, has called on Mines Minister, Anthony Lynham, to take immediate action on glaring problems highlighted during the...
An investigation report and incident animation video has been released following a dangerous blasting incident that occurred at Albury Quarry, Ettamogah NSW in April 2018. Flyrock on driver’s seat of...
The Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) has published the Guideline for Applying Functional Safety to Autonomous Systems in Mining. This guideline provides a common approach to applying functional...
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan and Minister for Regional Development Alannah MacTiernan officially opened leading Caterpillar dealer WesTrac’s new Technology Training Centre near the South...
