Crushing Services International has been fined $60,000 following an arc flash incident at Atlas Iron’s Wodgina iron ore project in the Pilbara. On November 9, 2013, CSI electrician Daniel...
Tag - health and safety
Health and Safety (H&S), often referred to as Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) involves the assessment and mitigation of risks that may impact the health, safety or welfare of those in your workplace. AMSJ contains a range of news information, research, case studies on the various aspects of health and safety as it relates to mining.
Malcolm Sim, Monash University Recent cases of black lung in Queensland coal miners after many years of no known cases have raised important questions about control of dust exposure in coal mines, as...
Thirty years after the tragic Moura mine disaster, the Queensland Government has announced they will contribute to the building of the Moura Miners’ Memorial. Minister for State Development and...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum have released a significant incident report into the death of a 32-year-old worker at a Rio Tinto mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Lee Buzzard...
The CFMEU is escalating their campaign for more action against illegal importation of asbestos after the discovery of the cancer causing substance on a major Brisbane project on the weekend. The...
Tougher coal dust controls, new and better testing, and better trained medicos are the backbone of a new regime to protect the health of the state’s 5500 underground coal miners. A day after...
The youngest miner to be diagnosed with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis could have had coal workers’ pneumoconiosis for nine years. Steve Mellor, 39, spoke about his recent diagnosis on ABC’s 7.30...
A fourth case of black lung has been confirmed in less than a week, bringing the total number of coal miners diagnosed to 11. The Department of Natural Resources and Mines announced the latest victim...
Workers at Chevron’s Gorgon project on Barrow Island were forced to stop work and evacuate due to a gas leak last week. Just before midnight on Friday, workers were told to leave the site after...
Three cases of black lung have been confirmed in as many days taking the total number of confirmed cases to 10. A 55-year-old underground coal mine worker was confirmed to have the deadly lung...
