Coal Services Health in New South Wales has released guidelines for managing lung disease in the coal mining environment, aiming to prevent

Prevention is better than (no) cure: The 2024 Queensland Mining Industry Health & Safety Conference (QMIHSC) was held from the 18th-21st Aug

Where there are mines with operators in cabs there is potential, if not controlled, for operators to be exposed to dusts.

We have been actively engaged in research to improve the design, performance, and certification of environmental enclosures.

COPD: The importance of other causative factors such as occupational exposures and ambient particulate matter is increasingly recognized.

For machine operators, the cab is their most important personal protection equipment.

The dust created by exploding earth is respirable, which permeates deep into the lower lung tissue.

Machine cabs should be part of a safe work environment. ISO believes this is the case and so do the stakeholders that developed the standard

All these occupational lung diseases are preventable. Limiting exposure to respirable dust can stop the development of the disease

What is dust? Is it harmful? Before we tackle these, we need to understand what aerosols are, allowing us to determine where dust fits...