Authorities want to examine resources operations more often for compliance. The Queensland Transport and Resource Committee recently recommended increasing unannounced Resources Safety and Health...
Tag - Queensland Mines Inspectorate
The Queensland Mines inspectorate has been challenged about its way it responded to the ongoing exceedances of gas at the Grosvenor mine prior to the ill-fated explosion. The long-awaited Queensland...
Queensland Coal Inspectorate has issued a safety alert following a major structural failure of the boom point sheaves on a BE1370 dragline, which allowed the sheave assembly to fall from the boom...
Queensland Mines Inspectorate has released a worker who has injured at a coal mine. On 25 August 2020 a Coal Mine Worker (CMW) was deflating an ultra-class rear dump truck tyre using a super large...
Queensland Resources Safety & Health has released an incident report regarding a mine worker being seriously burned in an explosion in a truck cabin. On 11 January 2021, a serious accident...
Resources Safety & Health Queensland has published a safety alert regarding a tyre explosion incident resulting from a lightning strike at a Queensland coal mine. The Queensland Mines...
OPINION If you’re looking for inspiration on improving the safety in Queensland underground coal mines, you won’t find it in the preliminary report by the Queensland Board of Inquiry...
Some Queensland mines inspectors and other mines department officials were rewarded with a $1250 bonus by the Queensland Government in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown according to information...
The cause of the Grosvenor mine gas explosion has been the subject of much conjecture at the recent Board of Inquiry. The conduct and subsequent findings of the inquiry have now been delayed but...
Peabody Energy and several senior executives will face a class action over its handling of the North Goonyella underground coal mine fire. The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System have...
