For employers and workers, the guide describes how to build a psychologically healthy and safe workplace by identifying, assessing and controlling risks to workers’ mental health. Dr Peta Miller...
Tag - mine safety in Australia
Australia is the world’s leading country in mine safety practice. As one of the world’s largest export miners, Australian mines have evolved to become the safest in the world. Mine safety in Australia is characterised by a worker-management consultative approach, hazard identification and risk reduction. Mine safety in Australia has contributed to improvement in a range of developing nations including India, China, PNG, Turkey and parts of South America.
The Australian explosives manufacturing industry has earned an enviable reputation as a global leader in the manufacture of explosives, as well as providing the required infrastructure and equipment...
Immersive Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Simtars to jointly develop training and workforce development solutions for the Queensland resources sector and...
Mastermyne, whose recognition as a finalist for The Safety Foremost Award at the Resource Industry Network’s (RIN) 2018 event has taken a relentless approach to improving safety.
Serious injury | SinNot 2018/00815 Summary: An operator suffered a fractured toe and lacerations requiring stitches when a drill steel crushed his foot. The operator was installing a cable bolt. The...
Summary: Coal and gas was ejected from the rib from the vicinity of a borehole. The power to the miner was tripped by the methanometer. There were three operators at the miner at the time of the...
Summary: A coal burst occurred during longwall mining. Ejected coal was found in the walkway of the longwall. Face pressure was lost. Recommendations to industry: The Work Health and Safety (Mines...
Summary: An operator on a continuous miner had his arm trapped between the rib protection and a rib bolter. A piece of rib 0.5 metre wide by 2.8 metre high slumped down under the bolting platform...
Date: 07 May 2018 Summary of incident In February 2017, two underground workers were using an integrated tool carrier (IT) to complete a task at the intersection of a decline and a link drive. To...
Summary: An articulated dump truck has rolled. The truck was tipping its load when the incident occurred. Recommendations to industry: Areas where vehicles are raising a load should be monitored for...
