Despite technology’s part in improving mine safety, Bravus Mining & Resources and Glencore implement workforce management strategies that bring their safety targets into reality. Read More
Fortescue Metals Group has pledged $25 million to create around 200 new traineeship positions across the company, including entry-level positions in safety and autonomous operations. Read More
Deloitte has recognised heat stress as a top concern of climate change as it sets to impact workers’ health, safety and ability to perform tasks. Read More
BHP has sped up its payments to suppliers and is on the path to recruiting 1500 new employees to fight the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
Rio Tinto is set to back the development of a childcare centre in Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia with $5 million in funding. Read More
Embracing new technologies in the resources industries could add $74 billion to the Australian economy by 2030 and create over 80,000 local jobs. Read More
The Queensland Government has put a ban on eight more large resource projects to employ a fully fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workforce, taking the number of projects affected by this ruling to 69. Read More
A growing number of companies globally are looking to electrify their mines as an attractive way to reduce costs, improve energy efficiency and steward their licence to operate.
Mine electrification is Read More
The number of employers offering the non-financial benefits employees want the most has fallen, in tandem with a reduction in the value of salary increases year on year. Read More
Rio Tinto has backed the Western Australian Government’s election commitment and first-ever strategy for enhancing the state's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) capabilities. Read More
Over 350 people (18 per cent) out of 1987 polled by Hays in Australia reported automation has impacted their job significantly, with their duties changing or their role becoming redundant. Read More
The benefits of mine digitisation on the workforce are more positive than some people might have realised, considering the removal of work conditions associated with fly-in fly-out (FIFO) work. Read More
Riggers and labourers showed the highest recovery in job demand since the mining and resources sector displayed its first signs of improvement in mid 2016, reported DFP. Read More