Joel Gray
Senior Mining Engineer – Operations, Cannington Mine, South32
Several paste backfill bulkhead failures over the space of 12 months demanded that paste inrush risk at Cannington be re-evaluated. The resulting risk assessment led to the introduction of a set of new operating rules for high risk filling conditions to ensure safer use of the popular backfill method at the mine.
This paper will talk operators through the high potential incidents which occurred, the primary causes and the risk assessment which followed. Implementable actions utilised at Cannington are shared, while challenging other operations to consider their own current level of risk with regards to the use of paste backfill.
You may also like
33:54
Dr Jacinta Buchbach, Head Respect at Work, Leadership Development, In Safe Hands. Educators in Safety: Respect at Work
36:42
Ivica Ninic, Director, Forge Works
19:42
Zac Lowth, General Manager Operations, Staunch Technology
16:42
Prof Tim Horberry, Professor of Human Factors, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre and Dr Kirsten Way, ...
32:23
Suzanne Desailly, General Manager, MATES in Mining & Energy
28:54
Dr Stephanie MacMahon, Lecturer, Program Director SLRC Learning Lab, School of Education, University of Queensland ...
27:46
Dr Snezana Bajic, Deputy Chief Inspector Explosives and Haydn Isaac, Principal Inspector of Explosives, North ...
23:13
Dr Snezana Bajic, Deputy Chief Inspector Explosives, Resources Safety and Health Queensland, Herman Ng, Senior ...
33:05
Shaun Dobson, Deputy Chief Inspector of Coal Mines, Resources Safety and Health Queensland
28:56
Sean Muller, Principal Scientist - MST, Resources Safety and Health Queensland, Simtars