Safety Zone

  • Don't degrade miners' workers comp laws

    General Secretary, Andrew Vickers, has written to Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten to demand no further expansion of the Comcare workers compensation scheme, which he says was not designed to adequately cover coalminers.

    Mr Vickers has referred the Minister to the ACTU's submission, where it has submitted that the Act should be amended to prevent the granting of any new Comcare licences.

    He also states:

    21/05/2013
  • Time company bosses were called to account for industrial manslaughter

    Pike River Disaster judgement underlines ACTU’s call for action on workers deaths

    Our Union is backing the ACTU’s call for the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws made on the 28 April to mark International Workers Memorial Day when workers throughout the world paid their respects to the thousands of people killed on the job every year.

    30/04/2013
  • Mining Accident News

    Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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    14/03/2013
  • Six coal miners killed in 25 days!

    Fatality report from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (USA)

    Six different coal mining accidents occurred within the recent 25-day period; four in West Virginia, one in Kentucky and one in Illinois. Four of the accidents were at underground mines and two occurred at surface mines.

    Download the report

    25/02/2013
  • Impacts of shiftwork in mining

    20 November 2012

    aces1Fatigue, illness and stressed partners are some of the potential impacts of shift work in the mining industry revealed in a major new study released today.

    The first wave of findings from the Australian Coal and Energy Survey conducted by researchers at Griffith University goes some way to explaining why shift lengths and rostering are becoming hot button issues for mine workers, says the CFMEU Mining and Energy Union.

    As the mining industry continues to expand, mine managers should pay attention to the research showing that shift work and workers’ ability to have a say over their working hours had far-reaching implications for their physical and mental health and family lives.

    20/11/2012
  • Mining Accident News

    Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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    05/10/2012
  • The growth of insecure work is making Australian workplaces less safe, warn unions

    memorialThe rise of insecure work in Australia over the past few decades has made employees less able to speak up for their rights and workplaces less safe, say unions.

    ACTU President Ged Kearney said a constantly changing workforce often meant that safe systems of work were not fully-implemented, and casual, contract and labour hire workers were also less likely to speak up if they thought something was unsafe because they feared the sack.

    10/09/2012
  • Mining Accident News

    Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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    04/04/2012
  • Mining Accident News

    Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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    13/02/2012
  • Mining Accident News

    Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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    10/01/2012