Mining companies should introduce background checks for workers, consider an industry-wide register for perpetrators of sexual harassment and crack down on alcohol at all fly-in, fly-out sites in a bid to stamp out predatory behaviour, an inquiry says.
“This represents a failure of the industry to protect its workers”, according to inquiry chairwoman Libby Mettam. Peter de Kruijff
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