figure 1 Queensland Coal Inspectorate has issued a safety notice to draw attention to the serious tyre failure incident. A Cat 795F rear dump was being loaded by a rope shovel when a basalt rock approximately 400mm in diameter has fallen on the...
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Normet is known as a supplier of wide product and solution range for underground mining and tunnelling industry. Perhaps the most well-known are the Normet concrete sprayers. Normet has been offering...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Inc., an Amazon.com company, has announced that BHP, one of the world’s leading resources companies, has selected AWS as its long-term data analytics and machine learning...
Dust suppression specialists GRT welcome the news that the Queensland government will invest $5 million in research to protect workers from occupational dust lung diseases, including silicosis and...
Motor vehicle rollovers are known to be one of the most prominent causes of surface fatalities at mine sites. Safe Work Australia found that 127 non-road vehicles were involved in a rollover on a non...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is evolving its Leopard™ DI650i down-the-hole (DTH) drill rig to support fully autonomous operation. The new iDrill automation platform expands the existing on-board...
RGR-Velox (Reactive Geohazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides and avalanches. It detects, tracks and...
Put yourself in this position. You’re in your crowded home garage and you want to pack away your surfboard, but where do you put it? You see a space at the top of some shelves in the corner. It might...
As Australia’s largest supplier of fit-for-function quality personal protective equipment and safety products, Blackwoods is proud to be the exclusive distributors of a new range of disposable...
How many of us have used a variation of the phrase: ‘Do not judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes’? With a few tweaks we can mould this to the construction industry: ‘You can...
INTRODUCING THE BLUNDSTONE #984 – The #984 is the latest addition to the Blundstone safety boot range and is part of their premium XFoot Rubber series. Designed to be the cooler brother of...
Many accidents or ‘near misses’ can be prevented if all companies were to implement and use proper lockout / tagout procedures. We must encourage the development of a ‘lockout culture’ or ‘lockout...
Due to the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and its continuing effects being felt across our economy, the Resources Training Council has postponed its upcoming 5th Conference &...
