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Fatigue & Dehydration: Two sides of the same coin

By Kaitlyn Bruschi, Corporate Bodies International Dehydration and fatigue are significant risks within the mining industry, both having considerable impacts on health and safety parameters within...

How the SIA helps improve OHS capability

In raising the standard of the OHS profession, it is important to support the big questions being asked, capture what is learnt and reflect it back in a way which progresses knowledge, skill and...

Is The Focus On Compliance Harming Safety Performance?

Surely Compliance Can’t Be A Bad Thing OK, so to be clear, compliance in itself is not the problem I’m going to bang on about in this article. The issue I’m going to take a swing at is an increasing...

Can dealing with emotional exhaustion enhance happiness?

There’s no doubt that working in the mining and energy industry is exhausting and sometimes it’s our emotional exhaustion that gets overlooked. New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA)...

dangerous incident

Dangerous Incident Report Summary

Dangerous incident | SInNot 2018/00096 Summary: A dump truck exited a dump and was proceeding down a 10% grade when the truck started to slide. It slid for about 80 m before it started to turn. The...