THE South Australian government is defending the time it has taken to modify its workplace health and safety laws.
04/09/2008
THE Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling for national work health and safety laws to be stricter to deter breaches in Australian mines.
10/11/2008
THE ACTU will launch an attack on the Rudd Government’s proposed changes to workplace health and safety laws.
15/09/2009
CONSTRUCTION, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (CFMEU) Northern division president Ian Murray says the streamlining of work safety laws across Australia will be detrimental to the Hunter's coal industry.
29/09/2009
CONSISTENT workplace health and safety laws benefitting miners and other industries have come into effect in NSW.
12/09/2008
TREASURER Troy Buswell is an opponent of the Federal Government’s plans to streamline occupational health and safety laws and introduce a national system.
23/09/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Institute of Company Directors says the country’s inconsistent health and safety laws are a hazard to them.
03/03/2009
CHANGES to OH&S regulations that require electrical equipment on mining and construction sites to be tested and tagged will come into effect on 01 January 2009.
17/12/2008
SAFE Work Australia has announced that an exposure draft of the national model occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation is open for public comment for a period of six weeks from 28 September until 9 November 2009.
12/10/2009
AS part of the public comment period on the proposed national Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws NT WorkSafe is conducting a number of information sessions across the state.
13/10/2009
THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Energy has informed Mining Safety that on 3 June 2009 legislation was passed by the Queensland Parliament to amend the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 and the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act 1999.
22/06/2009
This year's Pro-Visual safety wall-chart features the incoming national mining occupational health and safety legislation.
03/09/2010
The New South Wales Minerals Council has voiced its support for the decision by Australia’s Federal, State and Territory governments to agree on a national occupational health and safety (OH&S) framework.
15/12/2009
CFMEU Mining and Energy Union state secretary Gary Wood has warned that the mining industry is not ready to take on the newly introduced system of hazard management based on risk.
08/09/2009
THE MINISTER for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, has welcomed a Liberal Party back down and the passage of the Safe Work Australia Bill through the Australian Parliament.
08/09/2009
WORKSAFE Victoria has commenced projects to review the explosives regulations which concern blast operations within the mining industry.
06/03/2009
THE ACTU says the resources sector will be targeted as part of the union movement's campaign to phase out individual employment contracts.
27/05/2009
LEGISLATION setting up a new workplace safety body has been introduced to federal Parliament.
05/09/2008
P&H MinePro has been fined $260,000 over a workplace accident at the Bulga open-cut mine in the Hunter Valley.
02/09/2009
THE FEDERAL Government in conjunction with the mining industry are in the process of completing legislation that will improve safety.
18/08/2009