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R U OK? launch FIFO mental health campaign

Suicide prevention organisation R U OK? is urging workmates to support one another before they hit rock bottom, as part of a new campaign aimed at mental health in the fly-in, fly-out mining industry...

Train Of Thought

Looking at Learning

Resources Industry Skills Association’s Rod Ramsay assesses the return on investment of training in the resources sector. Training needs are often determined by regulatory process and operational...

Increase in international exhibitors at QME 2016

The dust has settled at the Mackay Showgrounds after another successful Queensland Mining and Engineering Exhibition. While crowds were smaller than they have been in previous years, thousands of...

Callide Power Station major overhaul kicks off

Final preparations are underway at CS Energy’s Callide Power Station for a $31 million major overhaul of one of the power station’s generating units. Contractors have been mobilising on site in...

TEAM Group take home top gong at Contractor Awards

TEAM Group have been named the Queensland Mining Contractors of the Year at a gala celebration in honour of the Queensland resources sector’s hard-working contractors. Mackay-based TEAM Group...

BGC wins $114m Queensland contracts

BGC Contracting has won two Queensland mining contracts worth $114 million. The company have been awarded a $97m contract at Incitec Pivot Limited’s Phosphate Hill site and a $17m contract with...

BLACK LUNG: X-rays to be “double-checked”

The Queensland Government has launched a boosted x-ray screening system, which will see coal miners’ x-rays “double-checked” overseas. Natural Resources and Mines Minister Dr...

Targeting Back Pain

Reducing the Strain

WorkCover Queensland delivers the cold hard facts about musculoskeletal injuries and compensation in the mining industry. Did you know that musculoskeletal injuries are the cause of over half of all...

MP calls for Black Lung Royal Commission

A call from Queensland Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller for a Royal Commission into Black Lung disease has been welcomed in mining communities across the state as more workers get diagnosed, and the scourge of...

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$400 million waste to energy project to create 800 jobs

Phoenix Energy Australia has nominated local company BGC Contracting as the preferred Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for its $400 million Kwinana Waste to Energy project...

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