Iron ore majors tighten security amid Western Australian sexual harassment inquiry


  • World
  • Friday, 29 Oct 2021

FILE PHOTO: A worker checks a truck loaded with iron ore at the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) Christmas Creek iron ore mine located south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, November 17, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Regan

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Major Australian iron ore companies say they are increasing security measures at remote mine sites and improving training to try to change an industry culture that has seen high rates of sexual assault.

Measures will also include cutting down on excess drinking of alcohol at the fly in, fly out "FIFO" camps, mining executives told a Western Australian state inquiry.

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