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The State Budget will provide $1.2 million over two years for a mobile service to deliver respiratory health checks to coal workers.

The mobile service - an equipped and staffed van - was recommended by the Parliamentary Select Committee into coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and will supplement existing regional specialist services.

The State Government says the money for the mobile screening unit comes on top of almost $25 million committed in 2017 to 'black lung' health and safety reforms.

After three
years of reform, Queensland coal workers now receive free respiratory health
checks when they start in the industry, when they leave. . .

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A parliamentary committee looking into the re-emergence of black lung disease in Queensland says it found catastrophic failure, at almost every level, of the regulatory system intended to protect the health and safety of coal workers.

As a result of that failure, 21 Queensland coal miners had now been diagnosed with Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CWP) – an insidious but entirely preventable disease, it said.

The Black Lung, White Lies report was handed down today, containing 68 recommendations.

It noted “the tragic irony” that Queensland, with. . .

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A case of black lung disease in an open-cut coal mine worker has been reported at BMA's Goonyella Riverside Mine, according to the mining union.
Paul Head reported that in his 31 years working as an open-cut coal miner he had only received one chest x-ray when he first started working in the mines.
CFMEU Mining and Energy Division Queensland District President Stephen Smyth said workers and communities in all states and territories with underground and open-cut coal mines were now clearly at risk.
“It’s a myth that miners working in open-cut mines. . .

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A coal worker who was twice cleared by Australian medical professionals of having "black lung" has become the 15th confirmed case of the disease to emerge in Queensland since May 2015, the mining union says.
CFMEU Mining and Energy Division Queensland District president Stephen Smyth said the system was still in crisis and failing to identify black lung disease despite a supposed focus on the illness.
“It is unbelievable that this disease was missed twice by Australian health professionals in less than a year,” Mr Smyth said.
“Even when black lung disease expert Dr Bob Cohen told them it was. . .

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Another Queensland coal miner has been confirmed with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, making eight 'black lung' cases officially identified since May 2015.
A 55-year-old underground coal mine worker is the latest case confirmed by the State Government.
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines said the man had worked at a number of mines in the Bowen Basin and was a coal mining industry veteran of 20 years.
A respiratory physician who was assessing the worker for another chest condition diagnosed early stage CWP.
New research centre
The news came as an Occupational Health and Safety Research. . .

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