Tasmanian Government must act on Coroner’s Mine Safety recommendations: AWU

The AWU believes that the Tasmanian Government should take immediate steps to introduce new mine safety regulation which addresses specific issues identified by the Coronial Inquiry into the Renison mine fatalities.

Today's findings by the Tasmanian Coroner into the Renison fatalities finally provides the families with the opportunity to find closure following their tragic fatalities.

Many of the findings are consistent with submissions made by the AWU into the review of the Workplace Health and Safety Act which was rejected at that time by the State Government.

The broader mining community can only benefit from the inadequacies identified by the Coroner in relation to regulation of Workplace Health and Safety in Tasmania's Mining Industry.

" It is clear after extensive evidence considered by the Coroner that specific mining safety regulations are of critical necessity in order to ensure that tragedies of this nature are not repeated in the future," Tasmania AWU Secretary, Ian Wakefield said.