Gomes – Reactive to Proactive – An Early Intervention Approach to Health Promotion
Dr. Rolf Gomes Founder and Cardiologist, Heart of Australia Corporate Health Initiative Despite the enormous resources committed by the Mining Industry in developing workplace health and safety initiatives, the average health of the mining workforce still lags white collar employees. Drivers of poor physical and psychological health amongst mining workers are often ‘external’ and lifestylerelated, […]
Desira – Management of Diesel Exhaust in Underground Mines
Mark Desira Inspector of Mines – Occupational Hygiene The underground mine environment may contain a number of airborne contaminants that affect worker health. This includes diesel plant exhaust (gases and particulate matter) that is emitted into the underground work environment. The classification of diesel exhaust as a Class 1 ‘confirmed human carcinogen’ by the International […]
Houldsworth/Russell – Switching on Integrated Safety Systems in Glencore’s North Queensland Copper Assets
Graham Houldsworth Principal Advisor – Strategy and Compliance, Glencore Copper Assets Andrew Russell Managing Director, Actrua Performance Cultures Over the course of the past two and a half years Glencore’s North Queensland Copper Operations have developed and implemented a new generation of integrated safety programs that combine behavioural and system based approaches. Initially a project […]
Clarke – Hazard Reporting and Innovation: A Cultural Journey
Adrian Clarke SHE Manager, Anglo American A proactive safety culture is the desired end state for Anglo American’s Dawson Mine. The journey relies upon the initiation of a strong system to promote embedding the desired safety behaviours within the organisation. At Dawson Mine, this system is “Recognition and Reward Scheme”. The scheme relies on hazard […]
Bajic – Best Practice Gas Monitoring
Dr Snezana Bajic Technical Services Manager, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (Simtars) Reliable gas monitoring is a key element to ensure that the mine based controls are effective. Coal mines in Queensland and New South Wales have been facing issues in controlling tailgate methane levels and recently there have been two serious spontaneous […]
Wu/Ren – Spontaneous Combustion of Coal: Detection and Control in Underground Coal Mines
Professor Jianming Wu Visiting Professor of University of Wollongong and Director of AST Australia A/Professor Ting Ren</br/>Director of Centre of Infrastructure Protection and Mining Safety, University of Wollongong Spontaneous combustion (sponcom) of coal remains a major safety issue for underground coal mining operations. Recent heating incidents in Australia further highlight the need of improving current […]
Burnett – Grasstree Development Team Dust Suppression (2018 Winner)
Simon Burnett, Development Mechanical Coordinator, AngloAmerican – Grasstree Mine
Industry Sharing with Industry
In continuing with the desire from industry to share in key learnings from site-related incidents and following on from the themes of previous conferences, this session will be an open forum from people (within the industry) who will be talking about key issues and challenges faced at times on their site. This session will be […]
Viljoen- An Industry Without Fatalities
Natascha Viljoen Group Head of Processing, Anglo American Natascha is responsible for Group Processing, a specialist technical services and support function that ensures safe, responsible and optimized processing performance, through step-change technologies and operational excellence. With a Metallurgical Engineering degree from North-West University and an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town (Cum Laude), […]
Parcell – Choices and Consequences – A discussion with Brant ‘Bugsy’ North
Brandt ‘Bugsy’ North, Safety Ambassador/Choices and Consequences Presenter, Downunder Group Solution Mark Parcell, Sole Director, Mine Safety Institute of Australia (interviewer)