THE FEDERAL Government in conjunction with the mining industry are in the process of completing legislation that will improve safety.
18/08/2009
WESTERN Australian police have released details on an operation conducted in March 2009.
30/03/2009
THE HUNTER Valley’s Drayton mine expansion will also include safety improvements.
22/10/2009
THE Mines Inspectorate has issued a safety alert after a water truck operator was killed on an exploration site.
10/12/2008
THE FORMER manager of the Beaconsfield Gold mine has told an inquest he “continually” asked Tasmania’s safety watchdog to inspect the site.
24/09/2008
BHP Billiton has reported that one of its workers at its Escondida mine in Chile has died due to injuries sustained while operating a cathode stripping machine at the electrowinning tankhouse on site.
11/02/2010
THE MINING Industry Skills Centre has unveiled a games-based simulation training tool to boost mine site safety and minimise risk.
01/10/2008
DRIVER Skills Australia are providers of advanced, defensive and 4wd courses Australia wide and now offer a nationally recognised qualification with selected courses including the courses delivered on-site at mines around Australia.
18/05/2009
THE FOSTERVILLE Mine Rescue Team claimed victory at the 16th Annual Victorian Underground Mine Rescue Competition held in Bendigo from 2nd August 2008.
08/08/2008
SAFETY inspectors will visit a Western Australian coal mine after a fire an on-site fire landed a worker in hospital.
24/10/2008
A NUMBER of mining officials have been prosecuted following the death of a miner at an exploration site in Queensland in 2006.
04/11/2008
MINES and Energy inspectors and Workplace Health and Safety inspectors are investigating the death of a 24-year-old man at a mine site in Queensland.
17/08/2009
IMMERSIVE Technologies has been given the thumbs-up for its first four-wheel drive light vehicle conversion kit for training simulators.
17/11/2008
THE DEATH of the 117th worker in a South African mine this year has angered unions and sparked serious concerns for mine site health and safety.
16/09/2008
CONSTRUCTION at the Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea has been halted by local authorities due to health and safety concerns.
29/07/2009
A ROCK fall has raised safety concerns at Pike River Coal's mine on the West Coast, New Zealand.
19/02/2009
AN INQUEST has heard increased seismic activity three months before a fatal rockfall at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in April 2006 was no cause for safety concern.
26/09/2008
AN investigation into a coal mine explosion which left a worker with severe burns in Collie will resume on 30 October 2008.
30/10/2008
UNIONS hope to push safety as a major issue in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, following the second mining death in a month.
29/08/2008
THE Queensland Department of Mines and Energy (DME) has released a safety alert after a pontoon capsized at an Australian mine site.
15/09/2008