The Department of Mines and Petroleum has charged Crushing Services International Pty Ltd (CSI) in relation to the death of a Pilbara mine worker in August last year. Electrician Kurt Williams died...
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Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has charged Inline Engineering Services Pty Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd in relation to an incident that occurred in July...
More than 1,200 Western Australian mine workers are facing losing their security clearance if they do not renew their dangerous goods security cards. Department of Mines and Petroleum Acting...
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...
With more than 3000 dangerous goods security cards due to expire in July, and several thousands more over the following months, Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum is...
A particularly colourful war of words has erupted between Australia’s peak mining bodies and The Australia Institute (TAI) over a report released today that accuses the resources industry of...
Andrew Chaplyn has been appointed Western Australia’s 11th State Mining Engineer. Mr Chaplyn, who is also Mines Safety Director at the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP), will take over the role...
The Western Australian government has appointed seven new specialist safety inspectors to work specifically in the resources and mining sector. Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion said the...
A culture of cover-ups, or an industry of continual improvements? Shane Ashish reports on the controversy surrounding the state of mine rescue in Western Australia. Collaboration of Mines Rescue and...
There is a ‘tsunami’ of hazardous substances/chemicals information and regulation occurring around the world and it is coming to Australia, writes Laurie Glossop. We have used the analogy of a...
