THE TASMANIAN government admits it needs more mining inspectors, but says it can’t find them.
The state's chief inspector of mines, Fred Sears, says the state needs six inspectors, but the government was not willing to pay enough to employ them.
Moves to improve the state’s health and safety standards follow the coronial inquest into the deaths of two Beaconsfield miners in April 2006.
Premier, David Bartlett, says the funding is there for the taking, but finding inspectors is proving to be difficult.
He says the state has attracted one new inspector which took nearly two and a half years.
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