The South African mining industry has continuously recommitted to the shared aspiration of zero harm, which aims to ensure that mineworkers return home from work unharmed every day. While there was an 86% decline in the number of fatalities from 1994 t…
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A 38-year-old mineworker died on Monday at Harmony Gold Mining Company in Doornkop, outside Johannesburg. She was certified dead on the scene. This, after a fall-of-ground incident at the mine, the company said in a statement. It is investigating the i…
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The Western Australian government this week launched Australia’s first code of practice for mental health for fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers in the resources and construction sector.
The code of practice was developed following extensive public consu…
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The University of South Africa (Unisa) Centre for Blended-learning Studies will on April 12 host a neuroscience and safety and wellbeing in the workplace masterclass, led by Nutricula Psychology psychologist Paul Potgieter, on the Unisa science campus,…
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday urged the government to hold the mining industry accountable for its failures, after a worker died at Modikwa Platinum Mine in Limpopo due to a fall of ground. "One death is too many and we call o…
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Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has requested the assistance of Police Minister Bheki Cele to intervene in the current instability in Carletonville and to safeguard the community.
A statement issued by the Department of Mineral Resources (D…
The resources sector has welcomed the results of an independent review into work health and safety (WHS) legislation, which found that the laws are operating as intended, but has raised concerns with some of the recommendations made.
The review, condu…
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BHP Group called for the creation of an independent international body to oversee the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which hold mining waste, after the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years.
"As an in…
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Zimbabwe removed 24 bodies of artisanal miners who had been trapped in two collapsed gold shafts since Tuesday, according to a union official. “So far we have retrieved 24 bodies from the two shafts and 23 of them have since been positively identified,…
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Zimbabwe’s government will review mining legislation to improve safety standards in the industry, after 24 miners died when two gold shafts collapsed, the Herald reported, citing Mines Minister Winston Chitando. “Obviously it is a learning point and we…
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