Paul Hellwege

There is an armchair on the beach of a closed pit lake and the gates are locked. Which tells you much of what you need to know about mine water safety

Mine water safety conversations default to tailings dams, but Dr Cherie McCullough spent an hour explaining why the larger risk is day to day exposure to as little as 1.

By Jamie Wade on August 15, 2026
Safety, Occupational Health, Safety Training, Incident Reporting, Emergency Response, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Efficiency, Workflow Management, ESG, Water and Air Quality Monitoring, Long-term Planning, Environmental Stewardship, Mine Closure Planning, Workforce, Training and Development, Health and Well-being Programs, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation, Crisis Management, Insurance and Liability
Australia, Western Australia, Goldfields-Esperance, South West, Asia