Over the next few issues of AMSJ, mine site environmental specialist, Phil Abernethy, will walk through, step by step, the essentials of environmental management in the resources sector. All mining...
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A coal dust report by anti-coal activist group Clean Air Queensland is “deeply flawed” and “misleading”, according to the peak body for the state’s resources sector. Chief...
Jeffrey Ling explains how electronic inspection and safety compliance management is transforming the mining industry. Safety management in any industry can quickly lead to stacks of paperwork...
David J Broadbent examines some of the “stuff” behind hazard and near miss reporting. When I was approached to write a piece on the nature of safety reporting it came at a time when I was reflecting...
A team of researchers in Sweden claim to have developed a reliable test that can detect drugs in a person’s system through a sample of their exhaled breath. A majority of mines in Australia currently...
Ergonomics is the interdisciplinary scientific field concerned with understanding interactions between humans and the systems within which they exist. The field draws on knowledge from diverse areas...
Advances in sleep research have produced a considerable amount of data regarding the role of sleep in all areas of life, including the workforce, writes researcher Masaya Takahashi. Working...
This figure represents a worrying 50 per cent increase on the previous month’s figures. It’s also the highest number of monthly-recorded fatalities for nearly three years, since Safe Work Australia...
