The impact of stress-related illness in the mining sector is greater than many suspect, writes Helen Gibbons. To its credit, the mining industry is becoming increasingly aware that unmanaged mental...
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Employees who are suffering from burn-out are more likely to make spontaneous and irrational decisions. This is one of the findings of PhD student Miss Evie Michailidis and Dr Adrian Banks from the...
New research shows that over one in five (21%) of all employees rate their overall sleep as either extremely poor, very poor or poor. Authors of the research report, GCC Insights, surveyed over...
At the Inquiry into the deaths of two mine company employees during a cyclone in 2007, a surveyor has admitted that his gross incompetence led to a workers camp being built in a high wind risk area...
An industry-wide drug sting began yesterday with major iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group assisting WA Police search employees and contractors travelling to FMG’s remote Christmas Creek mine...
A Chinchilla man has been charged by Police after threatening, on his facebook page, to shoot coal seam gas workers (CSG) in southern Queensland. Sergeant Gerard Brady told Surat Basin.com.au that...
Rio Tinto will reportedly face worldwide employee-led protests today over a spate of fatalities at an Indonesian worksite where the company has a major investment. According to IndustriALL Global...
FIFO workers from mining and gas projects in south-west Queensland have been targeted for drug searches by police with sniffer dogs at Miles Airport. According to Surat Basin.com, nine flights were...
The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) is launching a new initiative today aimed at igniting action on workplace safety through the life-changing stories of Australian Paralympians. The APC’s...
A new wiki-style website for health and safety practitioners from around the world has just been launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). OSHwiki will allow users to...
