Category: News

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has launched an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Program to capture video evidence of illegal dumping and polluting. Click here for related link  

A company and its two directors have been fined after pleading guilty to failing to comply with Australian health and workplace standards – a failure that resulted in the death … Continued

Boral Resources (Vic) Pty Ltd has been fined $30,000 and ordered to pay $142,000 in court costs for illegally accepting and storing 110,000 tonnes of industrial waste without a licence … Continued

WorkSafe inspectors have begun a month-long blitz targeting dangerous and sub-standard demolition work. Inspectors expect to visit more than 800 demolition and construction sites across the state to ensure work … Continued

WA’s Department of Mines and Petroleum has issued a safety alert on angle grinders after receiving 28 injury notifications for workers who were using either a four- or five-inch angle … Continued

Maintaining dust control equipment is the key to compliance, but these days it’s tough enough to maintain production equipment much less dust controls. Poor maintenance is the largest contributing factor … Continued

A plant operator heard an unusual noise coming from the run of mine (ROM) feed hopper. On inspection, the plant operator found the feed hopper had collapsed onto the plant … Continued

CMPA is pleased to announce the release of the Noise Management Guideline on 20 October 2016 which adds to the current collection of CMPA Guidelines (see www.cmpavic.asn.au for further information … Continued

Almost 50 per cent of Australian employees will experience some form of workplace bullying during their lives and between 5 and 7 per cent will have been bullied in the … Continued

Incident: Death of a worker at an underground opal mine about 4 pm on Friday, 4 November 2016. Circumstances: While attempting to climb out of a shaft sump, a worker was … Continued