Queensland resources employees may soon enjoy greater privacy and safety at work. State Parliament recently proposed new rules that remove the requirement for crew members to disclose...
Category - Mental Health
Several victims will share traumatic experiences from substandard work conditions at a mining giant. Shine Lawyers recently launched a new class action investigation into alleged sexual harassment or...
Substandard employment environments have to be referred to the safety watchdog. Employers were recently warned they must report sexual harassment, sexual assault, psychological abuse, physical harm...
Resources workers are worried their employment will be terminated if they raise safety concerns. A healthy reporting culture is far from reality at mine sites. This is the disturbing finding...
A distracted, lead-footed operator caused his employer’s heavy vehicle to become a total loss. Authorities recently examined why an employee drove into oncoming traffic and wrote off a loaded...
A subterranean explosion occurred without taking all reasonable safety precautions. Authorities are trying to determine why explosives were detonated while three night shift workers were still...
A fly-in fly-out (FIFO) worker skipped his medication multiple times prior to assaulting seven people. Authorities recently confirmed Ashley Dean Fildes did not have antipsychotic drugs for nearly...
A mining giant investigated different ways to prevent its employment environment from worsening. BHP recently considered whether to amend policies, processes, and behaviours to eliminate workplace...
A mining company will come clean about substandard employment environments in response to a high-profile lawsuit. Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) reluctantly agreed to release documents that WorkSafe...
Top officials were speechless after discovering poor employment environments are often understated. Authorities were surprised to find substandard conditions are regularly underreported. They blamed...
Female mine workers cannot resolve poor employment conditions on their own, researchers found. Resources managers and male subordinates stand a far better chance of ending sexual harassment than...
Three major resources companies proposed that employees undergo compulsory education in what constitutes a poor work environment. BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) workers could soon be...
