Since 2015, 14 people have died in the state's coal mining industry and nine lives have been lost to the mineral and quarrying sector."Mining is an industry which historically has high risks, but it is also an industry Australia has invested heavily in with technology and systems and risk management," he said.Mine safety standards and procedures are regulated by each state and territory.
The Dugald River mine site had undergone 27 visits for audits and safety checks in the past two years, according to Queensland Minister for Resources, Scott Stewart. Emeritus Professor Michael Quinlan, from the University of New South Wales' Industrial Relations Research Centre, has researched mine deaths around the world."But we can still improve further."He said there were a major set of interventions carried out in the 1990s after mine disasters in NSW and Queensland.
"Modern technology has led to bigger, more complex mining — there are deeper and higher production rates, mining is more automated, more mechanical.He said the number of people making up the mining workforce was getting lower as technology replaced manpower.
Someone goes to Jail
Since deregulation and the downgrading of unionism?
Deficiencies can only be papered over for so long.