Remote workers urged their employer to unconditionally free them from arbitrary isolation at mine accommodation. Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) employees want to be released from a continuing lockdown at Hancock Prospecting’s Roy Hill Mine, 370km...
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A resources services company prepared and organised its workforce at a metal development. Thiess Australia recently finished mobilising its crew at Covalent Lithium’s Mount Holland Mine, 308km...
A mine employee might consider buying a lotto ticket after being fortunate enough to walk away from a pile-up accident. One coal worker was recently sandwiched between utility vehicles at an...
Employers will restrict the number of alcoholic beverages workers consume after widespread complaints about substandard conditions. Several companies will impose a daily four-drink cap and takeaway...
Innovation is something Safety Mate prides themselves in. They are excited to be launching their latest range of gloves from NXG™. The GreenTek™ environmentally conscious range of gloves are...
Former workers cannot postpone enforcement action over a coal mine disaster in Central Queensland’s Isaac region. Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) recently blocked a request to...
An employee learnt the hard way to take greater care when exiting machinery. One operator was recently hospitalised with serious injuries after falling from his dozer. The worker had finished...
A recently departed resources executive is suing his former workplace for substandard employment conditions. Paul Scanlan claims Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) management bullied, harassed and wrongly...
Employers will have to fit more innovative motion inhibitors to reduce the risk of workplace accidents. New road-registered heavy vehicles must be able to detect likely forward collisions, warn...
A multinational resources company was sued for allegedly damaging a vital human organ in northwest Queensland. Glencore is defending Brisbane Supreme Court allegations that a toddler developed brain...
A foreign and unqualified craftsman unsafely performed demolition work, a judge ruled. The Brisbane Magistrates Court recently fined a tradesman who allegedly removed asbestos in a way that breaches...
Headwear likely prevented an underground fatality but one employee still required urgent medical attention. A blasting worker recently became hospitalised after multiple rocks fell about 3.5 metres...
Authorities located and saved two resources employees without the means to return to their work site. Police successfully rescued ABBA Engineering poly and pipeline supervisor James Hawke and...
