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.
New rules, stricter enforcement and a state-wide crackdown are forcing South Australian mines and quarries to radically rethink how they manage crystalline silica exposure - or risk being shut down.
Alcoa of Australia has been fined $400,000 and ordered to pay court costs after a caustic soda spill at its Kwinana alumina refinery injured multiple workers—including school students on work experience placement.
