Health
Western Australia updates silica workplace exposure standards
The Western Australian Government has followed the lead of Australia’s eastern states to deliver new workplace exposure standards for silica ...
Queensland industrial manslaughter offences put into effect
Queensland’s hard-hitting mine and quarry safety laws have become active as of 1 July, with senior officers facing potentially more ...
Free lung health checks for Queensland quarry workers
Queensland’s quarrying and mineral mining workers will be given free lung health checks for life to protect them from dust-related ...
WesTrac reduces industry workplace dangers with new project
Caterpillar distributor WesTrac has introduced its Elimination of Live Work (ELW) project which can outline technology, tools and workplace practices ...
Health truck to provide lung checks to regional workers
Lung checks to Queensland’s former and present quarry and mine workers will be provided by a prime mover health truck ...
Commissioner ‘heartened’ by industry’s response to safety reset
The Queensland resources sector must ride the momentum from the recent “safety reset”, says the state’s Commissioner for Mine Health ...
