Miners’ lung health checks expanded beyond coal
Queensland’s hard-rock mining and quarry workers will soon have mandatory and free lung health checks, like their coal mining counterparts.Mines Minister Anthony Lynham said the
June 26, 2020
Queensland’s hard-rock mining and quarry workers will soon have mandatory and free lung health checks, like their coal mining counterparts.Mines Minister Anthony Lynham said the
Heart of Australia has won a contract to design, build and operate a mobile service to bring lung health checks to regional mine and quarry
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 –
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
January 1 is set to usher in a suite of health and safety reforms designed to help protect Queensland coal miners from ‘black lung’ disease.
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.
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
The State Government will establish a Parliamentary inquiry into the re-emergence of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, or ‘black lung’ disease, in Queensland. Natural Resources and Mines
The State Government has launched a three-pronged attack on ‘black lung’ disease after a Monash University Review report highlighting the failings of the health screening
A former Bowen Basin coal miner, 39, has become the tenth person diagnosed with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis in Queensland since May 2015. The Department of Natural
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
Doctors closest to coal miners are to be brought up to speed on black lung disease. The disease fits into the general description of pneumoconiosis and