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Top 10 Safety Innovations

The resources industry is evolving every day, and companies are adopting new and improved ways to not only improve productivity but safety. Sometimes, it isn’t the mad scientists or engineers in lab...

The Uber Effect

CEO of IFS Alastair Sorbie talks technology disruption and how we should be embracing the new opportunities technology brings. What are your thoughts on companies adopting new technologies...

Collision Avoidance

Driving standards are not changing anywhere near as quickly as the modernization of light vehicle safety. Specialist crash investigator and mine site driver trainer George Foessel examines why...

A Helping Hand To Heal

Supervisors are key in supporting injured workers, WorkCover Queensland’s Matthew Cross says. When a worker is injured at work, often their first port of call will naturally be their direct...

Safety Sense

Can safety make sense and still fail to manage risk? CRUNCH TIME FOR THE SAFETY INDUSTRY We are at a critical point within our industry. We seem to have more safety than ever before, but I don’t...

If the hard hat fits

If The Hard Hat Fits

When it comes to hiring a safety officer or manager for a site, there are many things that hiring managers must take into consideration to ensure their workers are kept safe. Link Resources’ Angela...

Professor Sidney Dekker

Q&A with Professor Sidney Dekker

SAFETY DIFFERENTLY Professor, author and pilot Sidney Dekker talks safety from 30,000ft, “overparenting” in the mining industry, and how one Australian mine has scrapped all safety procedures in a...

Waiting for the axe to fall

Waiting for the axe to fall

Uncertainty is a crippling and debilitating thing, and sadly these days many people are finding themselves in exactly that state in the workplace, Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland’s Tony...

lost at sea

Lost at sea

In an act of courage powered by a desperate plee for change, marine superintendent Jason Tulipan shares the story of how his mental illness caused him to lose everything and find rock bottom, and how...

know safety no pain

Know safety, no pain

Professor David Cliff writes about OHS in the minerals industry in the 21st century. Great progress has been made in reducing accidents and incidents in the mining industry. Large highly mechanised...