A Safety Management System is supposed to be a systematic and proactive process for managing safety risks. Having a structured approach to safety management should complement and support good management, operational and human factors practices but...
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On June 14, 2003, a maintenance repair foreman, age 25, was fatally injured while changing liner plates in a jaw crusher. Salyards was inside the crusher positioning a wedge bar to secure the upper...
Immersive Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Queensland Government’s Simtars to jointly develop training and workforce development solutions for the Queensland...
GE Digital and Wabtec have announced a multiyear agreement to continue commercialisation of value-add applications such as Predix Operations Performance Management (OPM) and Predix Asset Performance...
A Chinese construction machinery manufacturer XCMG has successfully delivered an order of 12 XDE120 100T electric drive trucks to Australia, achieving another breakthrough in the mass export of large...
Australian company SPEE3D has developed the world’s first metal 3D printer leveraging supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D) technology to deliver manufacturing grade printing at production speeds. The...
The NSW mining industry will come under increased scrutiny next week after the NSW regulator announced a blitz on safety across the mining sector. “We will conduct a state-wide compliance blitz...
Adani has finally received a green light on its groundwater management plan from the Queensland Government. In a statement released today, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said...
In the most recent Pike River Update, AMSJ has learned that the PRRA team together with a range of industry experts are working in preparation to go beyond the 170-metre seal in the mine’s...
According to available information, the world’ worst mine disaster killed 1549 miners. While there have been many mine disasters in history, the worst we have ever seen occurred in North...
A co-operative project is using robots to explore workings of flooded mines across Europe. The UNEXMIN project is developing a technology capable of autonomous exploration and mapping of flooded...
Hexagon has released new fatigue and distraction system for light vehicles that may revolutionise fatigue monitoring across the industry. The detection unit has been designed to provide continuous...
The NSW Resources Regulator will begin a causal investigation into an excavator and autonomous dozer collision at the Peabody Wilpinjong Coal Mine. On 27 May 2019, a Hitachi Ex1200 excavator collided...
