A former Candian Mine manager has developed a robotic search and rescue vehicle that reportedly can operate in mining environments under a range of emergency scenarios. Dr. Greg Baiden heads up Ontario-based tech company Penguin Automated Systems...
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Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today opened an innovation hub for mining and energy companies in Perth, Western Australia. At this location, clients can work with Accenture professionals and designers...
A 21-year-old US mineworker has been fatally injured during conveyor belt repairs while removing a splice pin from a belt just two days before Christmas. The incident occurred at the Murray Energy...
BREAKING…The Higginsville Mine Site in Western Australia has been placed o alert this afternoon as a bushfire has broken containment lines. The current alert status of the fire has been...
The ATSB has released an investigation report into a Rio Tinto mining train accident that occurred at Weipa on the 22 September 2019. The ATSB says that an empty bauxite mining train was travelling...
New mining safety regulation changes are set across some jurisdictions commencing from early January 2020. New South Wales In New South Wales the Work Health and Safety (Mines and Petroleum Sites)...
A recall of disc brakes rotors has been issued by an Australian Distributor of aftermarket parts after it found that defects in manufacturing have resulted in the disc brake rotor hub to crack. The...
An investigation by Brisbane’s Courier-Mail has revealed that the CFMEU slammed the Queensland Government over its’ gender quotas on the State’s Mining Industry Health and Safety...
The Northern Territory Government has signed a variation to the authorisation which establishes the conditions for OM Holdings to recommence some in-pit mining at Bootu Creek. In a statement released...
There are a plethora of definitions of safety footwear across the web. We asked our safety footwear partner Blundstone this important question: What is safety footwear? and what defines it? A pair of...
A miner who was effectively buried alive in a 30-tonne excavator as it fell through old workings in 2015 has provided evidence at a hearing at Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court. Bruce Harris, a 53...
The Queensland Government is seeking to recruit a Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines, Mineral Mines and Quarries as part of its’ safety and health branch. The position will be paying between...
Nine specialist Worksafe construction inspectors were among the graduates; the first of 40 to be recruited over four years as part of a government commitment to ensure safety during Victoria’s...
