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Bat Booth – Your Personnel Dust Rescuer

In our industry, dust has always been an issue. Its presence has always been a huge problem, whether it comes from roads, transfer points, mining processes, or cement processes, and dealing with it...

Making the perfect glove is like building a car

How can making gloves be compared to building cars? Well think of it another way. Would you buy a car with a huge engine without ensuring the chassis, brakes, transmission, gearbox and suspension...

Gavel

Employer sentenced to jail for torturing mine employee

A foreign resources executive will spend decades behind bars after allegedly inflicting severe pain or suffering on a worker. Sun Shujun was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after the Chinese...

Downer

Contract awarded for Bowen Basin coal mine

A resources services company has won a tender at a new coal operation in Central Queensland’s Isaac region. BUMA Australia recently secured the mining contract for Bowen Coking Coal’s...

Anglo American workers

Mining giant postpones workplace mandates

A multinational resources company will delay locking out employees who are unvaccinated against the pandemic. Anglo American recently postponed the deadline for its 5500-strong workforce to be...

Prominent Hill underground mine

Worker fatality delivers pay cut for mining boss

Management at a modern resources company paid for a workplace tragedy. OZ Minerals confirmed its chief executive lost nearly 40 per cent of his short-term incentive (STI) award due to a recent...

National emergency declared for Queensland, NSW

Parts of the East Coast are officially in danger and require immediate action. The Federal Government will declare a national emergency for flood-affected parts of Queensland and New South Wales...

Qube workers

Former bosses win unfair dismissal case at Fair Work

Multiple leaders were harshly, unjustly or unreasonably fired from a resources infrastructure company, a watchdog found. The Fair Work Commission recently ruled six shift managers were unfairly...

Frontline Action on Coal activist Megan Byrnes

Anti-coal activist pleads guilty to locking onto vehicle

An anti-mining protestor confessed to unlawfully entering a resources transport corridor and dangerously attaching herself to a heavy vehicle. Megan Byrnes pleaded guilty to trespassing, contravening...