SAFETY PLUS Products has written a series of guidelines to make choosing correct safety signs easier for mine managers.
03/12/2008
A NEW Internet-based on-line safety sign shop is using recycled materials, sustainable design principles and printers driven by solar power to manufacture signs used in the mining industry.
16/09/2009
ODT Australis has announced that it has added a new aspect to the company, sign writing.
23/07/2009
BOC Safety Australia has released a reference manual outlining products, industry standards and information on risk assessments in mining operations.
21/01/2009
THE LIBERAL-National Government’s Royalties for Regions initiative and major industries in the Pilbara are joining forced to improve health and safety in the region.
19/08/2009
THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Energy (DME) has issued a safety alert after an oxygen self-rescue unit was found to be contaminated during a practical demonstration.
19/09/2008
THE MINE Safety Operations Branch of the NSW Department Of Primary Industries has released an official safety warning following the structural failure and collapse of drill rig mast.
11/05/2009
A MINE collapse that crippled a Latrobe Valley power station in 2007 was caused by slack and inadequate safety precautions, according to a recent report.
07/01/2009
CORONER Rod Chandler has exonerated the company and the state government of any responsibility for miner Larry Knight’s death at the Beaconsfield gold mine disaster in 2006.
16/03/2009
THE Victorian government is imposing tougher reporting regulations for all mines in the Latrobe Valley in a bid to prevent mine collapses.
16/12/2008
THE Victorian Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has completed an inquiry into the Yallourn Mine collapse which washed away road and rail lines east of Melbourne in November 2007.
21/01/2009
THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Energy has issued an official safety warning following an incident wherein a suspended load fell causing the amputation of all the toes on a worker’s foot.
12/03/2009
THE DEPARTMENT of Mines and Petroleum has issued an official safety warning following an incident wherein explosives were misfired during bogging operation.
20/07/2009
THE 2009 ACT Health & Safety Show will be held on 22 October 2009 at the National Convention Centre.
13/10/2009
RIO Tinto Coal Australia managing director Bill Champion spoke on safety at the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference.
27/08/2009
A NEW industry safety and health levy is set to strengthen safety services in Queensland’s mining industry.
19/08/2008
NATIONAL Safety Solutions has announced that it has been placed in receivership and its state-of-the-art training facility in Gladstone will close.
17/04/2009
THE NATIONAL Safety Council (NSC) in the US says increased data can enhance behaviour-based injury-prevention, interventions and improve occupational safety and health.
03/02/2009
QUEENSLAND has appointed its first Mine Safety and Health Commissioner.
30/07/2009
THE SAFETY of Western Australian miners may be undermined if the NSW workplace safety model is adopted, according to an OHS expert.
11/08/2008