Australia’s mining industry is in the box seat to benefit from the booming demand for critical minerals. Driven by the push towards Net Zero and Electric vehicle (EV) battery technology, critical minerals now represent the fastest-growing sector in…

Dust monitoring devices measure different sizes and volumes of airborne dust particles. Measurements occur in different conditions through applying various measurement principles. The principles are light scatter forward, light scatter reversed,…

Dust monitoring is an ongoing strategy that uses sampling to estimate workers’ exposure to dust levels. In coal mines, it assesses overexposure to coal dust. Overexposure to coal dust can result in ‘black lung disease’. Coal mine workers’…

Dust control at mining sites is firmly back on the national agenda as recent cases of silicosis increase union pressure to ramp up health and safety measures to protect all workers exposed to deadly silica dust. For leading Australian mining and…

Dust control in surface coal mines is critical as coal dust is one of the main health hazards for coal miners. Dust from coal as well as overburden and road surfaces is also a visibility hazard on haul roads, intersections, and the ROM. Coal mining…

Everyone has a duty of care to ensure their workplaces are safe. As an employer, or person conducting business or undertaking the onus is on you with regards to the health and safety in the workplace and including visitors as this is considered your…

The hierarchy of controls should underpin the dust control strategy adopted for metalliferous mining, so that occupational exposure to metalliferous dust can be controlled. Several metalliferous dust control measures may be required, and these…

Inhalable and respirable dust in metalliferous mining is generated from mining activities such as drilling, extraction, crushing, hauling, stockpiling and processing of minerals. The workers in mines and processing plants bear the brunt of exposure…

Globally, Australia’s metalliferous industry is a force to be reckoned with, from a production and trade perspective and is considered amongst the most lucrative in the world. Dating back to the mid-1800s when the first gold rush came to fore,…

The past five years have seen the re-emergence of coal mine dust pneumoconiosis commonly known as black lung disease in mine workers in Queensland. Although, coal mining industry assumed that the disease was completed eradicated in the last half…

What can be done to make water work in the suppression of coal dust? We can Imperative is to first consider the effects of coal dust control on the calorific value of coal in addition to dislodging the buoyancy of coal dust particles. No one also…