Queensland has passed long-planned amendments to the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act, and the Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Act, giving the state’s mine inspectors more power, and increasing maximum fines 15-fold. The amendments will see miners face maximum penalties of close to $4 million for failing to keep workers safe. The BillRead more
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From November 1, clause 89 of the Queensland Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017 will be amended to reduce the exposure limit for respirable dust in coal mines from an average of 3mg per cubic metre over eight hours, to 2.5mg. The government also committed to reviewing the system next year with the viewRead more
The principal contractor involved in the tragic deaths of two construction workers at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Queensland almost two years ago has today been fined $405,000, for breaches of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act). After pleading guilty at an earlier mention, the company was sentenced in the Brisbane Magistrates CourtRead more
The Queensland Government has issued an urgent warning to the stone bench-top industry following 22 workers’ compensation claims for silicosis in the last three weeks alone. Silicosis is an aggressive form of pneumoconiosis, a debilitating respiratory disease, which can be fatal. The progressive and irreversible disease is contracted when tiny particles of silica dust are breathedRead more
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