https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg8lJc_Nd0I Arden Station’s fire safety systems were recently put to the test with the help of Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. The team used a fog machine to generate ‘hot...

  Yesterday (28 April) was the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024 Ghella also celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the "World Day for Safety and Health at Work", established in 2003 by the ILO. The theme chosen for...

Korea: 8 out of 9 expressway tunnels have poor fire resistance design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrx_Gxp59o BAI (Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea) inspection report indicate 8 of 9 expressway tunnels in South Korea has inadequate...

A man working underground on Auckland’s $1.2b giant wastewater pipe this morning was trapped by a steel pole. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/man-working-on-auckland-s-central-interceptor-stuck-underground/

The victim, Joaquim (Jack) Silva, a 54-year-old man from Mississauga employed with Technicore Underground Inc., sustained fatal injuries while servicing a damaged pipeline.  Following a lengthy criminal investigation, on Thursday, March 28,...

The Loop, the modular network of underground connections aimed at ending traffic jams in cities like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, has sparked controversy after several workers denounced the precarious conditions of the digging...

  https://www.ctpost.com/news/world/article/a-bus-crashes-into-a-tunnel-wall-in-northern-19295754.php0  

Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt...

They’d seen it all while building test tunnels in Texas: new hires operating massive machinery without training or proper...

How do you organise 2,800 employees who have limited knowledge of the labour rights in Denmark? Thanks to persistence and co-operation the trade unions achieve remarkable...

Stuck TBM was finally retrieved, but it is not the end of the works and the residents have had enough of it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/boring-machine-restoration-update-1.7147322

Tunnel safety monitoring helps to rescue people inside a tunnel and to maintain air quality and control spread of smoke in case of fire or a...

Campi Bisenzio was devastated by the flood of 2-3 November 2023. https://www.iltirreno.it/firenze/cronaca/2024/04/04/news/alluvione-a-campi-scoperta-una-possibile-causa-un-tunnel-sotterraneo-per-l-irrigazione-1.100501016  

Merseyside Police confirmed the man fell while working on the structure on Waterloo Road, Liverpool at about 09:00 BST on Wednesday. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68722645 This is what Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUISMJGS9QA Dozens stuck in Taiwan tunnels after biggest quake in 25 years These people are trapped in tunnels along what is called the Suhua Highway - which runs down the east coast and is one of the most...

Technologies on Safe Construction Ventilation of Long-large Shield Tunnel with Low Gas in Metro Wei Zhao 1, Qingming Meng 2, Qi Liu 1, Mengheng Zhang 3 and Wei LI 4, * 1 Sinohydro Bureau 5Co., LTD., Sichuan, China 2 Power China Railway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enwqKEg4uoA The completion and opening of the tunnel in Glòries has allowed traffic to be shifted below ground, reducing levels of NO2 and PM10 air pollutants in this part of the city. Nitrogen dioxide is...

Academic paper concerning the health challenges caused by diesel locomotives. - Open Access. You can read the whole article free-of-charge via the link at the bottom. Nitrogen Dioxide Gas Levels in TBM Tunnel Construction with Diesel...

The tragedy remains one of the most significant events in the history of road tunnel safety, https://www.onlinesafetytrainer.com/the-mont-blanc-tunnel-fire-of-1999/

The fire started 150 meters inside the Stubberud tunnel in a large battery. All 24 workers were evacuated after they went into safety shelters. Aftenposten writes that the Stubberud tunnel is the main rig area for the 11 kilometer long...