As a bushfire WATCH and ACT alert remains current for residents of eastern Baldivis in the City of Rockingham in Western Australia, the state’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has reissued...
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The Transport Workers Union is calling for the introduction of new laws making it mandatory for employers to provide emergency positioning beacons to transport workers operating in remote areas. The...
Talk about embarrassing – a crane has toppled over in front of a safety inspector at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine construction site in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The incident...
A mine worker has been killed near Consolidated Minerals’ Woodie Woodie manganese mine in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The fatality occurred yesterday on a mining tenement during...
A blue alert has been issued for the mining towns of Port Hedland and Karratha due to concern that a tropical low off the northern coast of Western Australia could develop into a category 2 cyclone...
Two prohibition safety notices have been issued to Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine project in Western Australia. The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) issued the notices after concerns were...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has investigated allegations of a gas leak at Buru Energy’s Yulleroo 2 gas well in the Kimberley. DMP Executive Director Petroleum Jeff Haworth said that...
Hosted by WorkCover WA, this year’s Injury Management Conference 2015 will be held at on 5-6 May at the Crown Perth in Burswood. The event will unite WA’s workers’ compensation and injury...
Despite five tragic deaths, the overall LTI frequency rate in Western Australia’s mining sector improved by 8 per cent in the 2013-14 financial year, according to new statistics released by the...
Six sets of safety rules around the handling of dangerous goods in Western Australia will soon be rolled into one under a new program of legislation reform. Announcing the wide-ranging reforms last...
