The 2018 Queensland Mining Award winners have been announced: recognising the state’s hardest-working contractors, suppliers and producers. The Queensland Mining Awards were co-hosted by the Bowen...
Tag - mine safety in Australia
Australia is the world’s leading country in mine safety practice. As one of the world’s largest export miners, Australian mines have evolved to become the safest in the world. Mine safety in Australia is characterised by a worker-management consultative approach, hazard identification and risk reduction. Mine safety in Australia has contributed to improvement in a range of developing nations including India, China, PNG, Turkey and parts of South America.
It’s not all wine in the Hunter Valley, it’s still at the heart of it all – that will always be so, but it’s what’s happening on its culinary and creative fringes that makes returning here again and...
By Alyssa Wedler (Marketing Communications Specialist)
Modular Mining Systems, Inc.
A revolutionary new drill rig – The RoXplorer® coiled tubing (CT) rig – has been licenced to one of the world’s leading global mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies, IMDEX...
Surface – Crushed & Broken Stone – On June 16, 2018, a mechanic fell 10 feet from a portable cone crusher. The mechanic struck his head on the crusher before landing on the ground. Best Practices...
Plant – Cement – On July 2, 2018, a miner in the process of dumping the contents in the vaccum truck was seriously injured when he tripped while chasing the vacuum truck that began to roll away. 30...
Tendering, contract management, & procurement can be time consuming, yet alone, full of potentially high risks to you and to your clients / customers. Working with companies that are ISO...
A flying object hit a worker and inflicted a serious injury while he was attempting to free a jammed conveyor chain of a continuous miner in the underground workings of the mine on 5 July 2018. The...
A father and son suffered serious injuries while working in an underground coal mine on 4 July 2018. Falling coal rib struck two workers in the underground workings of the mine when the strata failed...
ANTHONY White should be in the prime of his life. But instead, the 36-year-old is battling a debilitating and incurable disease which has nearly taken his life. Story as reported in the NT News:...
