Minister for Mines and Natural Resources Dr Anthony Lynham has decided to conduct a review into the system of health screening of mine workers in Queensland to establish if improvements need to be...
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Workers at a Hunter Valley power station have been offered counselling after an explosion that injured two workers last week. A 24-year-old man was taken to hospital after receiving burns to his face...
Today marks the beginning of 2015 National Safe Work Month — a time to raise awareness and focus on health and safety in your workplace. In officially launching Safety Month, Safe Work Australia’s...
The Australian mining industry launched a new blueprint to address mental health and wellbeing issues in the workforce, announced by the Minerals Council of Australia last week. The blueprint...
[hr] The ongoing shift from investment and construction to production and operations in the mining sector isn’t a signal that the mining boom is over. Rather, it’s a sign that the scope of mining...
A new bill designed to limit the power of unions to call a ‘stop work’ over health and safety issues on work sites has been officially introduced to the Queensland Parliament. The Bill...
The downturn in Australia’s mining boom has taken a chunk out of some mining workers’ pay packets, according to a survey of safety and environmental workers conducted by safesearch. The...