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...
Tag - OHS
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...
Chair of Safe Work Australia and National Safe Work Month Ambassador Ann Sherry is urging businesses to make health and safety a priority and conduct a risk assessment during the third week of 2015...
Safe Work Australia have released their Notifiable Fatalities June 2015 Monthly Report, revealing a total of 87 work-related deaths from January to June. The report revealed there was 15 work-related...
A new study by the University of Adelaide’s School of Public Health has linked data from worker compensation claims with temperature records. The research found there was an association between...
Safe Work Australia are offering free health and safety seminars for the month of October. Broadcast daily throughout National Safe Work Month in October, the Virtual Seminar Series showcases...
Karara Mining Ltd has been fined $40,000 after pleading guilty to failing to provide a safe working environment. The sentence, handed down in Perth Magistrates Court on yesterday, was in relation to...
That precarious moment when you step off or onto the top of a ladder has been the focus of new material released by Safe Work Australia. The OHS policy body published a revision of the model Code of...
February 1 was the start date for New South Wales’ new mining health and safety laws, replacing the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 2002 and the Mine Health and Safety Act 2004 with the Work...
An extract from The Bulli Mining Disaster 1887: Lessons from the Past by Donald P.Dingsdag. On Wednesday 23 March 1887 at 2.30 pm, an explosion occurred at the Bulli Colliery in New South Wales which...
