A mine worker who committed suicide in a FIFO camp last year was afraid to seek help from mine site counsellors for fear he would lose his job, a FIFO mental health inquiry has heard. Peter Miller...
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A speaker at the WA Government’s inquiry into mental health impacts of FIFO work has called for new workers to go through an ‘induction period’ to gauge their suitability for the FIFO lifestyle. FIFO...
The AMMA has told a West Australian parliamentary inquiry that mental illness and self-harm is no more prevalent in the mining workforce than other industries. In its submission to the Western...
FIFO workers in the mines are being asked to look out for each other during long rosters by suicide-prevention organisation R U OK? The new R U OK? Afield campaign targeting workmates in FIFO and...
An official inquiry into FIFO related suicides in Western Australia has been launched with the WA Education and Health Standing Committee agreeing to the move at a meeting last night. The inquiry...
By Cecilia Jamasmie: www.mining.com The recent deaths of nine Western Australian fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers who took their own lives has put the issue of living conditions and depression in the...
A worker is believed to have taken his own life at the South Hedland workers’ camp in Western Australia in the early hours of last Saturday morning. The West Australian reports that the 37 year...
