Fly-in, fly-out fuelling violence: study - WA Business News

Fly-in, fly-out fuelling violence: study - WA Business News

The mining sector's reliance on fly-in, fly-out workers is fuelling an epidemic of violence, a groundbreaking new study has shown.

Researchers have found rates of violent assaults in mining communities in Queensland and Western Australia are more than double the average for each state.

Queensland University of Technology Professor Kerry Carrington has identified serious social problems resulting from the fly-in, fly-out workforce model used by mining companies.

Prof Carrington, the head of the School of Justice Studies at QUT's Faculty of Law, said the three-year study showed mine workers were turning to alcohol and drugs in isolated environments where there were few other ways to spend their time.

Redhand believes that the real reasons these companies prefer FIFO, is because of their health.

If a federal government report says that there needs to be a 15 - 20 km exclusion zone around a LNG refinery because of the deadly air emissions and other highly volatile chemicals that are very dangerous to people and the environment. So what is it doing to the workers?

These problems are not just social and environment are also physiology.

These immoral companies need to keep their workforce working, so they give their FIFO time to return home and neutralize their toxic levels.

This is another reason they do not want to pipe the Browse or the Canning Basin gas to the Pilbara because this would send their emissions off the Richter scale in regards to the the National Pollution Inventory. But considering these companies are in charge of their own monitoring, who really understands what the real state of the air quality in the Pilbara is?

But from my research it appears that all levels of government and their associated departments, all companies with interests in the Pilbara are very aware that they are slowly but surely poisoning the entire population of the Pilbara, both with air shed emissions and the toxic condition of their groundwater and the highly hazardous waste within the environment. One of the reason why they also want to go to James Price Point, it has the highest quality of clear air, on the planet.

Enough to make anyone crazy, violent and take up drinking.