In a sweeping reform to combat and prevent lung health diseases among Queensland’s mine workers, the state government will send a health truck across the regions this year.
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NSW regulator investigates pneumoconiosis case
A worker with around 41 years of coal mining experience has been diagnosed with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis.
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Webinar: Environmental intelligence strategies for dust, air quality, noise, vibration and water quality
Join Envirosuite on August 5 for a webinar that highlights essential strategies to tackle air quality, dust, vibration, noise, and water quality issues at your mining operation. The webinar will demonstrate how strategies focussed on environmental intelligence are now providing environmental managers at mining operations with the ability to make sense of the "information avalanche" while boosting efficiency at their sites.
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Resources Regulator maps out mining health, safety risks
The NSW Resources Regulator has released a list of compliance priorities to improve safety in the mining, extractive and petroleum industries.
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NSW cracks down on dust exposure in mines and quarries
The NSW Mine Safety Advisory Council is hoping to eradicate the threat of dust for mine and quarry workers, as well as workers in other workplace environments, through a new awareness campaign.
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QLD mine workers to receive compulsory lung screening
Queensland has extended its free lung health checks to all of the state's mine and quarry workers.
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Health truck brings lung checks to remote QLD workers
The Queensland Government has awarded a contract to build and operate a mobile health service to Heart of Australia in a bid to bring lung health checks to regional mine workers.
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Dust exposure management requires more than PPE use
While the use of masks may seem protective, it is not always enough to prevent hazardous dust particles from entering the lungs.
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LSM sets OH&S Standards in cabin dust exposure
LSM managing director Peter Woodford explains how the company is helping miners breathe easier, providing operator comfort and ensuring their heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system lasts longer with cabin filtration and pressuriser technologies.
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NSW applies exemption to new silica exposure standard
Several New South Wales mines and petroleum sites are ruled out of the new respirable crystalline silica exposure standard due to a class exemption by Safe Work.
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Battling the silent killer
RST operations and technical director David Handel explains how mining can tackle the silicosis crisis with effective and cost-efficient dust management solutions.
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What price, the health of underground metal mineworkers in WA?
There is a growing global momentum towards establishing more stringent diesel engine exhaust (DEE) monitoring standards in an attempt to minimise the risk of serious illnesses among underground miners in particular.
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No doom and gloom: Dust control in action
Machine operators have direct contact with the air they breathe inside the cabins. Though the work environment is inescapable, it is certainly not one without hope.
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Australian-first dust disease register arrives in Queensland
The Queensland Government has introduced Australia’s first dust-related disease register in an effort to provide better workplace health and safety protection to workers.
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Mine safety, Great Barrier Reef winners of Queensland budget
The Queensland Government is focusing on mine safety and protection of the Great Barrier Reef in its natural resources, mines and energy budget this year.
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Coal mine workers to undertake dust health checks
The New South Wales Resources Regulator is urging current and former coal mine workers to maintain regular health screening after investigating a former coal mine worker diagnosed with a mixed dust disease in 2017.
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Protecting workers from respirable dust in machinery cabins and control rooms
Dust particles may be small, but they can cause big problems for the health and safety of workers at mines, quarries, landfills, ports, and in construction and demolition. Engineering controls and education are needed to make sure workers stay safe.
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Decline in miners’ lung function could indicate disease
Miners suffer from an increased decline in lung function every year compared to the general population, despite measured concentrates of dust and gases such as silica and diesel exhaust at below occupational standards.
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The key to dust management success
Dust management is an essential component of effective mine site maintenance. Safe to Work talks to ESS training instructor Tom Stahura to find out how it can be kept under control.
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Anglo American minimises coal dust exposure with foam
A foam dust suppression system manages to significantly reduce workers’ exposure to respirable coal dust where coal, a continuous miner fleet and an underground environment
are involved.
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