Workers at Linc Energy’s underground coal gasification plant near Chinchilla in Queensland were allegedly exposed to dangerous gases over several years, according to the ABC. The public broadcaster...
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Workers are being evacuated from offshore oil and gas rigs off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia as the north of the state prepares for the onslaught of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn. Advice from the...
An unintended consequence of the recent boom in fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workforces attached to remote and regional mining and construction sites is confusion over the level of workers’ compensation...
The Coal Services Health & Safety Trust is now inviting applications for grants to fund initiatives designed to improve the health and wellbeing of coal mine workers. Researchers, mine...
At the Inquiry into the deaths of two mine company employees during a cyclone in 2007, a surveyor has admitted that his gross incompetence led to a workers camp being built in a high wind risk area...
Mine companies are not doing enough to prevent permanent injury to workers who operate high vibrating machinery, and are putting productivity targets before workers welfare, according to an expert in...
Comcare will no longer pay workers compensation for injuries that occur during recess breaks away from an employer’s premises. Changes to Comcare’s workers compensation and self-insurance eligibility...
Mine workers are the most dissatisfied workers in the country and the second most likely to be contemplating a change of organisation according to the latest Roy Morgan survey. Public Administration...
Safe Work Australia has released three new reports on the dangers of exposure to some of the most dangerous carcinogens to which workers are regularly exposed. The reports cover the following...
The Queensland Mines Inspectorate (QMI) has praised the prompt action of co-workers who went to the rescue of an electrician who became trapped between a coal rib and a maingate drive in a Queensland...
