If you have been randomly selected by the ACE-S team to participate in the Australian Coal and Energy Survey (ACE-S), and haven’t sent back your completed questionnaires, please don’t forget to do so now.
The survey is well under way. Members from across Australia are using the opportunity to give us their feedback on how work conditions are effecting them and their families—both positively and negatively.
ACE-S is funded by the Australian Research Council and the CFMEU-Mining, and is being conducted independently by a team of experts from Griffith University.  The research team are keen to make the results as representative of the views of the membership as possible, and THERE IS STILL TIME to send your views in.

Mining accident news summarised from around the globe. Edited by Mark Freeman of the NSW Department of Industry and Investment.

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Consultation time on new national safety laws has been slashed from six months to eight weeks, exposing mineworkers to the likelihood that some state safety regulations will be watered down unnoticed.

Of major concern to the CFMEU Mining Union are reductions for air and methane monitoring, escape ways not adequately provided, the banning of breathing apparatus – currently the only rescue equipment available, the reduction of inundation/inrush rules and no provision for ventilation officers.

June 2011 compilation of accidents and incidents from the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Queensland.

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