Queensland will introduce free, mandatory lung health checks for a broad range of mine workers in the metalliferous and quarry sector from today. While the mandatory health checks had been previously...
Tag - Dust lung disease
Pennsylvania State University researchers in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering have received a USD$400,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National...
A mine safety research project will examine ways to improve the efficiency of dust scrubbers in underground mining operations US researchers at Virginia Tech are leading a multidisciplinary team in a...
An independent assessment of the Queensland Government’s implementation of dust disease control measures has found that the Queensland Department of Natural Resources & Mines Safety Regulator...
The NSW mining regulator (Resources Regulator) is investigating three new cases of possible mining dust diseases. NSW Resources Regulator Chief Inspector Garvin Burns said all three workers were...
Under a new scheme in Queensland reporting and surveillance of dust diseases will become mandatory. Doctors will be required to notify Queensland Health of dust lung diseases such as coal workers’...
