Research from a James Cook University scientist has revealed that current exposure standards of workplace coal dust fail to take into account of environmental exposures in mining communities. The research highlights that coal dust exposures are...
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BHP will reduce payment terms for small, local and Indigenous businesses as part of a program to support its communities and regional economies during the Covid-19 pandemic. BHP will make immediate...
Workplace Health and Safety authorities across Australia undertook 230,054 workplace interventions, issued 46,472 notices for workplace health and safety breaches and finalised 289 legal proceedings...
The NSW Mine Safety Regulator has advised of a nose to tail haul truck collision at New South Wales mine. The incident reportedly involved two haul trucks colliding at an open-cut coal mine. The...
The Resources Training Council has postponed its upcoming 5th Conference & Exhibition, scheduled for 25-26 May 2020, in accordance with Government-mandated restrictions announced today involving...
Australia’s minerals industry is working together to ensure its workforce is safe and healthy and mining remainsstrong and sustainable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health and safety is the number...
The AWU and the CFMEU have clarified the position of unions associated with potential mining camp quarantining of workers. The two powerful mining unions believe that the quarantining workers in...
A team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact...
Mining camps have been excluded from mass gathering bans of 100 personnel or more that were introduced today. In an address to the nation, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison Federal...
The Queensland Parliament has approved the creation of a new mine safety authority today. The move comes following a spate of deaths and a hundred of high potential incidents in the Queensland mining...
New exposure standards for controlling toxic respirable dust to protect workers’ health are being met by Australian companies who are stepping up with help from a fine particle specialist and dust...
Charges laid against BMA and its former Saraji Mine Production Overburden Manager over the death of miner Allan Houston have alleged that the leading miner failed to meet a range of obligations...
The Australia Africa Minerals and Energy Group (AAMEG) is urging its members to prepare for COVID-19, today launching an online knowledge hub to support Australian minerals and energy companies with...
