Occupational Health and Safety
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Coal miner describes ordeal of living with black lung disease
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A former coal miner who has unwillingly become a symbol of black lung disease details his plight, telling a state parliamentary committee there are moments he no longer wants to live.
Topics: community-and-society, health, environmental-health, health-policy, health-administration, occupational-health-and-safety, diseases-and-disorders, rural, mining-rural, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, qld
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Research finds mining, oil and gas sectors having to work harder to manage impact of drugs and alcohol
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A report by the group that represents resource employers finds companies struggling to keep up with testing for synthetic drugs.
Topics: mining-rural, health-policy, drugs-and-substance-abuse, occupational-health-and-safety, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Bell Bay Aluminium's team attempts a rescue from a 15 metre crane image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Competition image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Ropes rescue adjudicator Rex Johnson image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Ropes rescue from a 15 metre tall overhead crane image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Ben Maynard from Grange Resources image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Search and rescue at Bell Bay Aluminium image
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Listen to a team rescue at Bell Bay Aluminium's old alumina kiln Audio
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Tim Bowden, Steve Rush and Ben Maynard at the Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Committee 2016 emergency response competition.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Ropes rescue adjudicator Rex Johnson Audio
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Competition adjudicator Rex Johnson had teams work with ropes and first aid equipment to lower a casualty safely to the ground from a 15 metre platform.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Mining crisis scenarios test emergency response team skills Feature
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Miners test their skills in simulated emergency situations at Bell Bay Aluminium's old alumina kiln.
Topics: agribusiness, mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, launceston-7250, bell-bay-7253
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Dreamworld safety inspectors' system of self-regulation not 'robust', union claims
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As Dreamworld commits to an internal audit of all its theme park rides, more questions are raised about safety compliance at the park.
Topics: accidents---other, occupational-health-and-safety, travel-health-and-safety, coomera-4209, qld, australia
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Bodies of Dreamworld victims released for funerals
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The bodies of four people who died at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast have been released to families for burial, Queensland police confirm.
Topics: workplace, travel-health-and-safety, occupational-health-and-safety, coomera-4209, brisbane-4000
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Dreamworld tragedy prompts theme park 'safety blitz'
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Specialist engineers will examine all rides at all Queensland theme parks, including Dreamworld where four people died this week, the State Government says, with the Premier also announcing a Workplace Health and Safety audit.
Topics: workplace, travel-health-and-safety, occupational-health-and-safety, state-parliament, alp, coomera-4209
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Child's death amid gastro outbreak at Sydney daycare prompts investigation
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Sydney health authorities are investigating whether the death of a child who attended an Artarmon childcare centre is related to a gastroenteritis outbreak.
Topics: child-care, children, child-health-and-behaviour, healthcare-facilities, occupational-health-and-safety, artarmon-2064
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Why employers need to help workers get good sleep
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Employees are not always able to make all the decisions regarding the hours they work, but they should not accept a sleep-deprived existence as a given.
Topics: sleep, health, work, occupational-health-and-safety, australia
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Barnaby Joyce 'failed to deliver on inquiry promise' ahead of ABCC bill
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is accused of breaking a promise to ensure a Senate inquiry into workplace deaths ahead of reintroducing Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation.
Topics: federal-parliament, joyce-barnaby, building-and-construction, workplace, occupational-health-and-safety, brisbane-4000, act
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Black lung disease no longer contained to underground mining
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The potentially deadly black lung disease has now spread to the open cut coal mining sector in Queensland, with a 55-year-old man becoming the latest confirmed case of the disease.
Topics: health, health-policy, occupational-health-and-safety, mining-rural, rural, qld, moranbah-4744
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German construction worker who fell to death 'not wearing harness'
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A 27-year-old female worker who plunged down a ventilation shaft to her death on Monday had doubled back to fix a mistake she noticed, the site's building contractor says.
Topics: building-and-construction, occupational-health-and-safety, workplace, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, wa, perth-6000
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More than 800 fallen miners remembered in Broken Hill
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More Australians have been killed working on the mines at Broken Hill than died during the Vietnam War.
Topics: death, occupational-health-and-safety, health, mining-rural, broken-hill-2880
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'My whole livelihood has been taken': Push to change compensation laws
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The Law Council of Australia is lobbying state and territory governments to soften public liability laws and increase payout thresholds, with insurance companies making millions while the injured are out of pocket.
Topics: occupational-health-and-safety, safety, insurance, australia
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CFMEU calls for industrial law change after racetrack deaths
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A union safety official says the deaths of two construction workers at Brisbane's Eagle Farm Racecourse are another example of why Queensland must make industrial manslaughter an offence.
Topics: emergency-incidents, workplace, occupational-health-and-safety, unions, eagle-farm-4009, brisbane-4000, qld
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Queensland vet found guilty of breaching workplace laws while treating Hendra
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A Queensland vet is sentenced to a 12 month court order after finding her guilty of breaching workplace laws while treating a horse with Hendra virus.
Topics: rural, occupational-health-and-safety, hendra-virus-infection, veterinary-medicine, courts-and-trials, bundaberg-4670, carbrook-4130, surfers-paradise-4217
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Almost a fifth of midwives 'suffering PTSD', study finds
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A study of 707 midwives concludes midwives carry a high psychological burden and PTSD should be acknowledged as an occupational stress.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, health, occupational-health-and-safety, health-policy, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, australia, qld
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Paramedics union calls for investment in injury prevention
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Spending on injury prevention and management is key to reducing the amount the New South Wales Government spends on insurance for paramedics, according to the Health Services Union.
Topics: health, health-policy, health-insurance, occupational-health-and-safety, government-and-politics, state-parliament, tamworth-2340
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