THE MINING Industry Skills Centre has unveiled a games-based simulation training tool to boost mine site safety and minimise risk.
01/10/2008
CONSISTENT workplace health and safety laws benefitting miners and other industries have come into effect in NSW.
12/09/2008
THE QUEENSLAND government is broadening its search for mines inspectors beyond Australian borders to boost health and safety in its mines.
15/10/2008
QUEENSLAND mining chiefs have been told to lift safety standards after a recent report revealed shocking numbers of workplace injuries for 2008.
06/01/2009
THE 100th Personal Emergency Device (PED) has been sold to the McArthur River Mine in the Northern Territory in a significant milestone.
20/01/2009
AT a time when mine safety seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue the Queensland government has stepped up and appointed seven new mine inspectors.
14/04/2009
The Queensland Government has reaffirmed its commitment to improved safety and health for small mines and quarries.
10/02/2010
Following the NSW Workplace Safety Summit in 2005, the NSW Government committed the NSW mining industry to reducing the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries by at least 40 per cent by 30 June 2012.
11/02/2010
FIRE Rescue Safety Australia has given Mining Safety a sneak preview of a new vehicle which will not be officially launched until AFAC in September 2009 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.
22/06/2009
APPROPRIATE Training in the mining industry is essential to safety as well as efficiency and profitability.
31/07/2009