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Safety and Health Alerts
Managing the risks of storm season
29 Oct 2024
This Safety Alert contains useful information to help your site prepare for a storm, as well as individual checklists....
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Line of fire and exclusion zone failings
23 Oct 2024
RSHQ has identified a concerning pattern involving workers in ‘no-go zones’ and the lines of fire in recent serious accidents....
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Ammonium nitrate emulsion tanker explosion
10 Oct 2024
A B-Double carrying ammonium nitrate emulsion collided with another vehicle, caught fire, burnt for >4 hours and exploded causing damage to Bruce Highway....
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Dragline bucket initiates an unknown misfire - Video
09 Oct 2024
While moving blasted overburden material at an open cut coal mine, a dragline contacted unknown remnants (a misfire) resulting in an unplanned initiation....
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Inspecting LPG cylinders prior to filling
05 Sep 2024
A house in Brisbane incurred significant damage when liquid LPG escaped from a 45kg cylinder and formed a gas cloud. The gas cloud then ignited...
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Uncontrolled fall of plant – Animation video
27 Aug 2024
Following several incidents at Queensland coal mines where plant has fallen from support stands in an uncontrolled manner. RSHQ has produced an animation....
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Fatality involving lifting using a pick and carry crane
12 Aug 2024
A coal mine worker suffered fatal injuries when struck by the boom of a pick and carry crane....
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