Queensland resources employees may soon enjoy greater privacy and safety at work. State Parliament recently proposed new rules that remove the requirement for crew members to disclose...
Category - Mental Health
Substandard employment environments have to be referred to the safety watchdog. Employers were recently warned they must report sexual harassment, sexual assault, psychological abuse, physical harm...
Resources workers are worried their employment will be terminated if they raise safety concerns. A healthy reporting culture is far from reality at mine sites. This is the disturbing finding...
A subterranean explosion occurred without taking all reasonable safety precautions. Authorities are trying to determine why explosives were detonated while three night shift workers were still...
A contracting company was penalised for almost sealing a worker’s fate. An employee was wrongly engulfed in soil, injured and traumatised. This is the conclusion authorities reached. One worker...
A fly-in fly-out (FIFO) worker skipped his medication multiple times prior to assaulting seven people. Authorities recently confirmed Ashley Dean Fildes did not have antipsychotic drugs for nearly...
A mining giant investigated different ways to prevent its employment environment from worsening. BHP recently considered whether to amend policies, processes, and behaviours to eliminate workplace...
A mining company will come clean about substandard employment environments in response to a high-profile lawsuit. Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) reluctantly agreed to release documents that WorkSafe...
Female mine workers cannot resolve poor employment conditions on their own, researchers found. Resources managers and male subordinates stand a far better chance of ending sexual harassment than...
A mining executive suspended operations for several hours to reduce the risk of injury, illness and death. Andrew Cole recently ordered all employees to set down their tools and participate in a day...
Resources employees went public about poor work conditions at multiple Central Queensland mining operations. Female workers from three undisclosed mine sites recently claimed they were urinated on...
A remote employee repeatedly had an unlawful relationship with a coworker, a judge found. The District Court of Western Australia recently convicted Jonathan David Small of raping a female colleague...
