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COVID-safe travel tech for mining workforce

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Queensland-based software company JESI has tackled COVID risks in its latest offering for remote worker management in the mining and energy sector.

JESI has launched of a Resources COVID Safe Commute Plan, in collaboration with Microsoft Australia and Mining Equipment, Technology and Services (METS).

This technology platform allows workers to digitally log their journeys to and from any geographic location, including a COVID Safe Plan, enabling resources companies to effectively monitor their remote and travelling workers.

Other integrations coming soon mean users will be able to remain within Microsoft Teams when interacting with JESI, and JESI can also incorporate. . .

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Green light for Wellcamp quarantine facility

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Site works have started for a Wellcamp regional quarantine facility as the State Government today announced a deal with landowner, Wagner Corporation.

Wagner Corporation will build the facility, with the accommodation modules to be manufactured in Queensland, and expects the first stage to be ready for use by the end of 2021. 

The Queensland Government will operate the facility once it is up and running. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was clear there was an urgent need for more fit-for-purpose quarantine facilities throughout Australia.

“As Australia contends with the dangerous Delta variant, Queensland must have alternatives. . .

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Event postponed as organisers play it safe on COVID

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Organisers of the annual Queensland Mining Industry Health & Safety Conference today announced that the 2021 event, scheduled to start on August 22, will be postponed.

The four-day, sold-out QMIHS Conference was to be held at The Star Gold Coast, with more than 600 delegates expected to attend.

Conference committee chair Darren Nicholls, from Glencore, said the organisers were taking a precautionary approach.

“The resources sector has worked hard to protect our industry and Queensland’s regional communities since the pandemic began last year and we’re very pleased to note that so far we’ve not had. . .

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COVID setback for key coal forum

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Continuing COVID-19 outbreaks have impacted the 2021 Bowen Basin Symposium scheduled this month, forcing organisers to set a new date in 2022.

The organising committee released a statement explaining the decision to postpone the event for a second time.

"We are deeply disappointed that we cannot host this event later this month, however, attendance at the symposium is critical for its success and the COVID-19 lockdowns in progress across the country (not just in Queensland) have jeopardised this," it stated. 

"All parts of our technical program, exhibition and networking opportunities have been impacted."

The committee said it. . .

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COVID crunch for Rookwood Weir project

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The Rookwood Weir construction site in Central Queensland is at the centre of a COVID scare after a contractor tested positive.

Queensland Health is tracing the contacts of the Brisbane woman, who flew to Rockhampton for work on July 28 and returned to Brisbane July 30.

Sunwater said today that all non-essential project work at Rookwood Weir was suspended and travel to and from the site had ceased.

A spokesman said all employees currently on-site at Rookwood Weir were isolating in individual rooms in workforce accommodation and would remain in quarantine for 14 days.

Other workers from the. . .

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Safety conference allows for COVID restrictions

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Coal, Energy, Gold.

This year’s 32nd annual Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference (QMIHSC) is going to be presented as a virtual event.

That’s on top of the actual conference being held on the Gold Coast.  

The allowance has been made for those who are faced with border restrictions or have other work commitments.

The conference is organised by a committee comprising representatives from mining. . .

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Widespread Covid-19 restrictions in force

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Gold.

The majority of the Queensland population is in lockdown this morning as a response to the latest Covid-19 scare.

A three day lockdown for the south east corner and Townsville including Magnet and Palm Islands has started and will be reviewed again on Friday.

There have been four new cases reported taking total number of cases to 1692.

It follows outbreaks in major centres around the country, involving updated travel restrictions.

The affected Local Government. . .

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Northern regional centre forced into Covid lockdown

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COVID restrictions have been extended across a greater area of the state.

A FiFo worker from Ipswich is among two positive cases identified today.

It was the second among a group of 170 Brisbane-based miners who had been working on site in the Northern Territory.

They were exposed by another miner who flew in from Victoria through Brisbane and tested positive.

An unvaccinated health worker from Brisbane who travelled to Townsville with her family also tested positive.

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Travelling workers need to don safety kit and take COVID-19 precautions

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Resource areas are left out of the reconstructed COVID-19 measures which come into force today (Tuesday 29 June).

But resource workers who have been in the south-east in the last 14 days are required to follow the reinstated restrictions.

Related: Exposure sites in Queensland

There were three new cases reported on the weekend including one FiFo worker.

A woman on the Sunshine Coast tested positive to the Delta strain. She was one. . .

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Ok Tedi restart after COVID-19 crisis

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Ok Tedi Mining in Papua New Guinea is due to resume mine operations today (April 1) after a suspension due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Acting managing director and chief executive officer Kedi Ilimbit said the restart of operations would be gradual, with ramp up to full production expected to take up to two weeks.

The Ok Tedi outbreak was a major concern for Queensland, with Cairns acting as a FIFO hub for Australian workers at the site.

Ok Tedi Mining suspended all flights to Cairns on March 5 following reports that five of its passengers who travelled. . .

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Gladstone alert as COVID cases spark Brisbane lockdown

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Greater Brisbane will go into a three-day lockdown from 5pm today (March 29) and restrictions will come into force across Queensland after cases of COVID-19 transmission in the community.

The lockdown comes after 10 new cases in Queensland overnight including four confirmed cases of community transmission - one a man who visited Gladstone between March 25-27.

That movement has prompted statewide precautions regarding mask wearing and limits on gatherings.

The new cases have been confirmed as the “highly infectious” UK strain of the virus.

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COVID-19 crisis sees Ok Tedi mine suspend operations

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Papua New Guinea-based Ok Tedi Mining has halted operations in order to protect its workforce, communities and operation as COVID-19 grips the country.

The company said that in light of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases at the mine site and in Papua New Guinea, it would suspend operations for 14 days as of Friday, March 19, to stop further transmission of the virus within its operations.

Loss in revenue during the suspension is expected to be in the order of PGK210 million, the equivalent of about $AU77 million.

The company had already suspended international charter flights. . .

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PNG flights - Cairns airport - Air Niugini

PNG flight bans to hold back COVID-19 threat

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Australia is suspending passenger flights into Cairns from Papua New Guinea for at least a fortnight and putting a stopper on FIFO work movements in light of the explosion of COVID-19 cases in that country.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government would be suspending all outbound travel exemptions for Australians to PNG, except for essential and critical workers, including humanitarian and medevac-related activity.

"This will include no general FIFO work," he said at a media conference today.

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Quarantine camp tipped to bring hundreds of jobs

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A proposed quarantine accommodation facility near Toowoomba would create 350-400 jobs in construction and could be completed in 14 weeks, says Wagner Corporation chairman John Wagner.

Mr Wagner met with Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles and Treasurer Cameron Dick today.

They were in town to mark progress in the construction of the Toowoomba Wellcamp Trade Distribution Centre at Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport.

Wagner Corporation proposes to adopt the COVID accommodation camp model used successfully at the Howard Springs facility in the Northern Territory.

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