David Chatto – Head of REMSAFE
ABSTRACT
Isolation of machinery is an everyday occurrence on mine sites, and practices have improved considerably over time. This presentation will explore some of the key advances in isolation
practices over many decades.
Up-to-date isolation-related incident data from Queensland will be presented and examined. It will be suggested that improvement has at best plateaued and that a shift is required in our approach to isolation practices – in particular: a focus on higher-order controls.
Human factors will be identified as the leading ongoing cause of isolation-related incidents. Highly effective, currently available treatment options will be discussed. In particular,
autonomous isolation (often called ‘remote isolation’), will be put forward as a key method of driving step-change improvement in this area. Using James Reason’s model of human error (slips,
lapses, mistakes and violations), it will be shown that autonomous isolation is highly effective in treating all forms of human error.
Case studies will be presented to demonstrate the benefits of autonomous isolation and a recent technical advancement will be introduced to demonstrate the continuing evolution of isolation.
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Mark Bartlett – General Manager, Health Safety & Security, Theiss Global Mining
Carrying out routine tyre maintenance on mining equipment is the single most likely event to cause a fatality in an Australian mine. The statistics prove tyre maintenance is often a difficult, dangerous and hazardous task.
This session will demonstrate the enormous amounts of energy that are released in a tyre explosion and highlight the relevant controls, why we need to have these in place to prevent such events occurring, and how such preventative measures have failed in the past.
To demonstrate these points a scenario will be enacted that provides an opportunity for both a coal and a metalliferous-based rescue team to demonstrate an emergency response to a catastrophic tyre failure.
Kate du Preez, Commissioner, Office of the Commissioner for Mine Safety and Health
Dr Sean Brady – Managing Director, Brady Heywood Pty Ltd
Sean is a forensic engineer that specialises in identifying the cause of structural engineering failures.
He is a Board Member of the Society of Construction Law Australia and a Member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre’s panel of experts. He is a practising Chartered Professional Engineer, a member of the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities and the ICE Forensic Engineering Journal.
He has published internationally on forensics for both engineering and legal audiences and is a visiting lecturer at Queensland University of Technology’s Business School and the University of Melbourne’s Law School.
Introduction by Master of Ceremonies
Russell White, Managing Director, Driver Safety Australia
CONFERENCE WELCOME
Luca Rocchi, Co-Chair, Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference 2018
CONFERENCE OPENING
Bo Hanson,Director,
Nathan Sharpe, Director,
Laura Geitz and Grant Polwarth, Director, Talisman People Pty Ltd
Neville Atkinson, Senior Inspector of Mines (Electrical), Resources Safety and Health Queensland
Neil Pollard, Operational Technology Manager, Glencore Coal Assets Australia
Nathan Cables, Global Head Mining and Industrial, EYECUE by Fingermark (USA)
Prof Naomi Rogers, Specialist Fatigue Consultant, Naomi Rogers Fatigue Consulting