The NSW Government has announced an independent quality assurance review of the coal industry health surveillance scheme in NSW. The Resources Regulator’s Executive Director Anthony Keon said the...
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Workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica halved to 0.05 milligrams per cubic metre effective 27 October, 2020 and respirable coal dust halved to 1.5 milligrams per cubic metre...
Safe Work Australia has today published a new report detailing Occupational lung diseases in Australia for the period between 2006-2019. The report provides an overview of occupational disease of the...
Miners working in the NSW coal industry will soon be given greater protections on the job with the NSW Government set to implement a strict new exposure standard for respirable coal dust almost two...
CleanSpace Respirators exceed minimum requirement for new QLD Code of Practice on silica dust exposure Most people would have heard about the dangers of respirable crystalline silica exposure and its...
There may not be a safe level of coal dust exposure, University of Melbourne researchers have suggested. Since May last year, Queensland has confirmed 15 cases of Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP)...
