Judge accepts fatal dam collapse charges
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
News - Risk & Safety
Queensland mining industry needs to improve safety to avoid deaths
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
Three killed in Texas oil well blowout
AN oil well blowout in Texas, US, has killed three people.
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
Vale launches project to recover area affected by fatal dam collapse
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale has launched a pilot project for the environmental recovery of the ar...
Explosion at Spanish ethylene oxide plant
AN explosion at an ethylene oxide facility in Tarragona, Spain, has killed three people and injur...
Fire at Scottish Borders chemical plant
A FIRE occurred at Rathburn Chemicals in the Scottish Borders, UK, on 10 January.
CSB releases final report on explosions at Midland Resource Recovery facility
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has found that a lack of hazard identification processes contr...
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factor...
New evacuation a week after Texas chemical plant explosion
A WEEK after the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) facility in Port Neches, Texas, ...
UPDATE: Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
A SECOND major explosion at a chemicals facility in Port Neches, Texas, has resulted in the evacu...
Explosion at Texas chemicals facility
THREE people have been injured in an explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC) Group facili...
New Interim Director appointed at Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
STEWART Behie has been appointed as the Interim Director at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety ...
US rolls back Chemical Disaster Rule
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded most of the Chemical Disaster Rule – w...
Dam collapse tragedy could have been prevented
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
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