The new health and safety law for NSW mining has been published and is now available online for the first time. The Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulation 2014, together with the Work Health and...
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Mines in NSW are being encouraged to register their business with Work Cover NSW’s latest health and safety initiative, Get Healthy at Work. As a free, government-sponsored service, Get Healthy...
Workers exposed to silica dust without adequate respiratory protection are at risk of developing silicosis, a serious lung disease. Silica is a major component in sand, and sand is a principal...
Between 2010-2013 statistics showed that safety within the mining industry was improving, with the recorded number of fatalities remaining low when compared to the years prior. However, a spike of...
Mine workers from the northern Bowen Basin are being asked to take part in a men’s health study aimed at discovering why men’s health is much poorer than women’s in the Mackay...
Michelle Baxter, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Safe Work Australia is encouraging workplace safety professionals to tune into the Australian Strategy Virtual Seminar Series tomorrow (24th October)...
The AMMA has told a West Australian parliamentary inquiry that mental illness and self-harm is no more prevalent in the mining workforce than other industries. In its submission to the Western...
Michelle Baxter, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Safe Work Australia is encouraging safety professionals to tune-in tomorrow to Professor Dennis Else’s free presentation on the history and...
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...
Do you know how many of your employees have diabetes? Do you know if your workplace helps or hinders them in managing their condition – or even preventing it in the first place? At the coming APPEA...
