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 - Inquiry
Outsourced mine employees are more unlikely to speak up when something is not right because they are concerned about potential repercussions, an advocate said. The Queensland parliamentary inquiry...
Employers can quickly reduce the number of unfilled positions by recruiting inexperienced women, a resources leader claimed. Unqualified female jobseekers could help ease the sector’s chronic...
An official investigation recommended excluding and publicly exposing the identities of mine employees found responsible for substandard conditions. A sector-wide blacklist and public register for...
As a Senate Select Committee on Health conducts an inquiry into the return of Black Lung disease in Queensland, the CFMEU has made a submission in the hopes of an overhaul of safety practices...
Seven fly-in fly-out workers from the Inpex Ichthys gas project in Darwin have taken their own life in the past three years, leading to Northern Territory trade unions calling for a FIFO code of...
The West Australian government has been accused of abandoning fly-in fly-out workers after it refused to establish the recommendations in a state inquiry into the mental health impacts of FIFO. The...
A parliamentary report into the fly-in fly-out work practices in regional Queensland has slammed ‘postcode discrimination’ and has called for change. The report, released on Friday, recommends...
A mine worker who committed suicide in a FIFO camp last year was afraid to seek help from mine site counsellors for fear he would lose his job, a FIFO mental health inquiry has heard. Peter Miller...
The South Australian Liberal Party risks the loss of jobs and damaging investor confidence in the natural gas industry by moving to establish a Parliamentary inquiry into hydraulic fracturing...
