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Today I would not do what I did then, nor countenance what I allowed to be done. I am older and I am wiser. Training sessions in health and safety for radioactive and hazardous waste and work on construction sites under skilled health and safety professionals have taught me.

This is my personal list of what it takes to have a successful health and safety program: • Maintain a well written Health and Safety Plan (HASP). • Employ and empower a skilled health and safety professional.

• Enforce health and safety standards and procedures. • Train all the people who work on the site. • Have a tailgate meeting every morning and before any new or unusual activity. • Practice incident control. • Practice continuous performance improvement in a non-accusatory environment. • Audit health and safety practices and procedures independently. • Bar anyone from the site who violates heath and safety procedures.

These simple precepts were followed to the tee on the site, the largest hazardous waste landfill in the U.S. During the four-year, hundred million-dollar construction program, there were no fatalities and nobody was hurt that I recall. Credit for this goes to Jill Saminago, a tiny lady, who as health and safety officer took on and beat out a project manager three times her size when he sought to evade health and safety protocol.

She kicked men off the site never to return: technicians and engineers alike who failed to wear seat belts in cars and harnesses on roofs were summarily sent away and replaced. She ran the daily tailgate meetings with verve and determination.

The men loved and feared her and respected her power and determination to keep them safe. She made me review all my work practices before I was allowed to dig a test pit on the side of the 1.3:1 slope 300 feet above the freeway so that I could design the.

Sometimes she slowed construction, but everybody lived. And that is enough to justify her approach and make her a model in my book. Did it successfully, but I find it hard to envisage a mine company head-office firing the mine manager because he tried to thwart the health and safety officer.

I find it hard to envisage a union countenancing its members been banned from the site for failing to wear a seat belt or harness. That is what it takes to keep people alive, but does the mining industry have the will and the way?

BASIC PRINCIPLES The International Labor Organization sets out the basic requirements for national practices for mine health and safety. The wonderful volume put out by The International Labor Office in Geneva, describes in simple terms and clear figures the basics of a health and safety approach for small mines. I suspect it may be worth having all surface miners read this as a refresher to reviewing their operations, however big and sophisticated their operations.

Recent event in West Virginia and China show that mine health and safety attitudes and practices vary from country to country. Lists some of the laws that pertain to health and safety in different countries. In the United States mine health and safety falls under MSHA, OSHA, and NIOSH; the details of their respective roles & responsibilities need not delay us-but see the web sites for the U.S. Department of Labor, and the. The states play a role but generally national organizations govern practice. I am told this is not the situation in Canada or Australia, where the provinces control mine health and safety and set their own provincial regulations. So you need to go to the websites of the various jurisdictions to get information.

There are too many to list, but the procedure is obvious and painless thanks to Google. Here are the links for and, for example. The best way to find out what each Canadian province wants and does is to go to the site where there is a clickable map that takes you to resources relevant to mining-related health and safety in the selected province. NEWS My personalized Google newspaper has a special section on Mine Health and Safety news. To keep abreast of mine health and safety news, simply do a Google search with these keywords 'mine health and safety news' and you will get updated information immediately. SOURCES OF INFORMATION The internet is awash in resources; there is no excuse for not being informed about mine health and safety.

The best and most comprehensive source of information are the. For example the page on you will find links and articles on every conceivable aspect of mine health and safety. If you seek in-depth coverage and have money, a $524 annual subscription will bring you 24 issues of from. Two sites where much sober information is available are and. The most-fun-to-use site and the one I like best is the where you will find news on mine accidents, mine-safety books, discussion forums, and even [believe it] mining music.

A much more sober and serious source of mine safety information is the website of the. Here you will find a discussion forum and information about upcoming courses on mine safety. According to their website, the society sponsors the Certified Mine Safety Professional designation. An excellent site is hailing from Australia. They describe themselves thus: MINEsafe is a work in progress and provides an interactive framework for mineworkers' to have access to worlds best practice on OH&S through the use of information communication technology (ICT).

SUPPLIERS I like the following statement regarding safety from so much that I repeat it in its entirety. They say they will: • strive to ensure our facilities operate to the highest standards to protect our employees, contractors, neighbors and the environment. • continue to seek ways to efficiently use materials and energy. • sell only those products that can be produced, transported, stored, used and disposed of safely. • provide appropriate information and/or training on the safe use and disposal of our products to our customers and consumers.

• seek to develop new or improved products and processes to improve the contribution we make to the quality of people's lives and to minimize the impact on the environment. • require every employee and contractor working for us to comply with relevant legislation and with this policy and we will provide them with the necessary training. • encourage employee initiatives that contribute to a safer and improved environment at work, at home and in the community. • set challenging targets and measure progress to ensure we continuously improve our safety, health and environmental performance.

• communicate openly about our activities and report progress on our safety, health and environmental performance. CONSULTANTS lists and provides links to consultants in wide range of mine health and safety practices. At the top of this page you will see a banner for In the interests of full disclosure, I note that this is a paid ad; however, I hasten to assure you that because I am retired and write for Infomine for fun and not profit, I write about what interests me, and not because anybody directs me. I was honored on a sunny winter day to have lunch in a beautiful Vancouver restaurant overlooking the snow-capped mountains with the founder and owner of 1984 Enterprises Inc, Lise Tompson. We chatted for over three hours about the basic issues of Canadian mine health and safety and the specifics of what her company does. Here is my description of what she and her staff do. Imagine you are a small or mid-sized exploration and/or mining company.

You do not have head-office health and safety staff. But you are running far-flung drilling and exploration programs. Contact Lise Tompson and she will set up and run the health and safety program for the exploration program. She will write your health and safety plan, get your drilling permits, train your staff in health and safety procedures, put professionals on site to help keep your staff safe and healthy, audit your operations, and keep your health and safety records. On her website is a 22-page that I recommend both to get a better idea of the scope of the company services and simply if you want an overview of what should be in an exploration program health and safety plan.

On the topic of mine exploration safety, I know of no better resource than the volume available free on the web and put out by the Safety Committee of the British Columbia & Yukon Chamber of Mines - Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia. Provides so fine an overview of their services in mine health and safety that I cannot resist copying and repeating much of it here.

I trust they will forgive me for repeating them to illustrate the essentials of a proper approach to mine health and safety: Our emphasis on instilling safety and health as values and integrating these critical components into a company's overall business strategy is the key to creating a culture of prevention, and helping control loss in order to maximize return on investment. Services we offer include: • Safety Systems Management - Guiding management on or in the development of a comprehensive health & mine safety system. • Benchmarking - Mine Safety & Health - Creating opportunity for continuous improvement through the identification of best practices, and on targets that create and promote sustainable results. • Reviews (Audits) - Evaluating strategic components of the health and mine safety system to determine the effectiveness of systems management. • Strategic Planning for Safety - Designing long-term safety processes and solutions that are focused on achievement of the organization's stated objectives. • Risk Analysis - Identifying potential and existing hazards and assessing the risk of those hazards in order to provide a proactive process of control before harm or loss occurs, and determining whether existing or planned control methods are adequate. • Emergency Preparedness/Response - Developing emergency preparedness plan which outlines defined procedures and responsibilities, knowing how to adequately prepare to respond to an unplanned event, assisting in the actual execution of the plan, and helping ensure a safe rescue or recovery operation.

• Incident Investigations - Providing support in incident (accident) investigations and analysis of the underlying causal factors leading to the incident. I liked this mission statement from: To provide the most current, concise and relevant safety information, training programs and advice available to meet or exceed our clients needs in a timely manner, at an affordable price. To assist organizations in health and safety issues relating to workplace safety and health, and to bring you broad and deep expertise, and a comprehensive range of health and safety solutions. I suspect Mr. My reasons flow naturally from reading his qualifications: Martin Consulting is a Limited Liability Company registered in the state of West Virginia which is designed to provide professional consulting and educational services to organizations committed to improving their overall level of health and safety. The principal is Tim A.

Martin who previously held several key health and safety leadership positions for an international power utility and mining company located in the eastern region of the United States. Under his leadership and expertise, Mr. Martin provided the necessary direction and assistance to senior management in building a world-class health and safety program. Martin's guidance allowed their operations to achieve the lowest intermediate safety rate in the nation as ranked by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Mine Health and Safety Administration. Good news is news about a new consulting company.

It is always good to hear of a new venture and to see in motion the eternal human quest for moving forward. On this basis I make bold to provide below an edited version of an e-mail attachment that came to me from someone I have only been able to 'talk to' electronically. Christensen and Engineering Consulting Services Inc. (ECSI) announced the creation of a joint venture, Global Mining RiSC LLC ('GMR').

This new corporation will provide risk analysis; safety and training oversight; and crisis avoidance-and-communications services. GMR’s goal is to partner with senior management at coal, hard rock and aggregate operations to: 1. Analyze risks, safety, and environmental performance, and programs and recommend safety and environmental systems enhancements. Provide modern crisis avoidance tools by developing background information, action plans, training and key staff in the event of a serious incident. GMR’s senior-level staff include: • J. Steven Gardner — President/CEO of Lexington, Kentucky-based ECSI. Gardner has worked as an engineer and manager in both mining operations and consulting engineering during his over-30-year career and served on a mine rescue team.

His consulting practice focuses on energy, natural resources, environmental, health and safety, sensitive land use issues, and industrial heritage projects. Phelps — Vice President, Christensen, has over 30 years experience in silver and potash to coal and shaft sinking, editorial management of the international Engineering & Mining Journal, where he also authored scores of feature articles on coal, metal and non-metal mining operations. He has served on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) committee prioritizing mine-safety research.

GMR’s advisory board is comprised of the following: • Dr. Larry Grayson — Led the recent National Mining Association-sponsored, independent Mine Safety Technology and Training Commission. He established and leads the multi-year, $4-million, federal government-sponsored, western U.S. Mining Safety and Health Training and Translation Center (a consortium of western universities). Zegeer — Former United States Assistant Secretary of Labor, for Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Zegeer is an experienced mining executive, with several decades’ experience managing a large, multi-mine complex producing millions of tons annually.

Stanley Suboleski — Recently. Served on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on the National Review Board for Mining Safety and Health Research, NIOSH. John Wilson — Is an independent consultant with broad experience in international mining in Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. His decades of experience include executive- and mine-management and engineering in coal and metalliferous mines, as well as mining equipment and geotechnical-consulting companies. • Robert Leahy — Managing Director, Christensen, has over 25 years’ experience in communications with particular knowledge of crisis and media management.

Recently, the NMA-sponsored, independent Mine Safety Technology and Training Commission, which was formed in response to the three mine disasters of early 2006, issued its findings. GMR’s services are aligned with the Commission’s 75 recommendations aimed at providing a very high level of protection for miners. More ideas on how to get the word out about your product and your services. I am not sure how M.A.C.S.S. (Mining and Construction Safety Specialists) does it, but the result works for me, and probably will for you.

Intrigued I went to their site. Seems as though there are two fellows providing services to the Australian mining industry in health and safety.

Here are extracts about their services and their backgrounds (I repeat this simply because I find it interesting and hope it will augment your health and safety programs and keep people alive): M.A.C.S.S. Is two professional safety specialists that have over 45 years experience between them in both the mining and construction industries.

They are: Gary Mounsey: 25 years experience including external and internal auditing, coordination of OH&S and competency-based training, mine site mobilization, review and development of safety management systems, and accident investigation. William Sleator Singularity Pdf Free there. Kym Mitchell: 20 years experience including advanced communication, negotiation and problem solving skills through the development of safety systems and implementation, critical incident investigation, behavioral-based safety training, auditing, risk management, and major hazard facilities. Their list of services is a useful checklist of things you might elect to do on your mine to enhance you health and safety programs. This includes: • Site mobilization OHS programs and training • OHS management audits • Team-based risk assessments • Policy and procedure development • Critical accident investigations • Coaching and mentoring • Behavior modification programs • Legislative compliance audits TRAINING I believe training is the most important component of a safe workplace.

Repeated exposure to health and safety training materials and repeated exposure to the fundamentals of working safely is, I believe, necessary to stay alive and avoid damaging the equipment. This personal belief is founded on many hours in classrooms being trained in health and safety and knowing that I would have done the wrong, silly thing had I not been trained. For this reason I survey a few companies providing health and safety training and training products. First let me refer you to a great website of the Australian Company.

They also have a branch in the United States. I spent too long to be able to justify it wondering around their site which contains lots of information not only to interest the idle like me, but to help those charge with training at the mine. Here is how they describe what they are and what they do: Immersive Technologies is committed to providing Equipment Simulator Training products that increase the safety and profitability of our customers. Established in 1993, Immersive Technologies is the leading global provider of operator training simulators to the Mining and Earth Moving Industries. Using real machine controls and precise - motion base systems, the Immersive Technologies Advanced Equipment AE Training Simulator provides a highly realistic learning environment. Available in either a semi- transportable or transportable configuration, the AE Training Simulator is a highly flexible tool for your training environment.

Also in Australia provides H&S training; I notice BHP Billiton is one of their clients. The provides material for mine-related health and safety training.

Provides on-line training to meet MSHA and OSHA requirements. In Canada the provides training on which is described thus: Bill C-45 amends the Criminal Code to define who is responsible for the safety of persons in the workplace and to allow for prosecution under charges of 'criminal negligence' when those responsibilities are recklessly or willfully disregarded. The amendment states: 'Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task.' This clearly indicates that organizations can and will be held responsible for the actions of all of their employees, and for their lack of action. This includes directors, executive officers, operations managers, plant managers, production managers, and so on. These are the people with authority to make decisions about day-to-day operations.

Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an individual found guilty of a contravention may be fined up to a maximum of $25,000 and/or sentenced to up to one year in jail, per offence. The fine for a corporation can be up to $500,000. Fines under the criminal code in an indictable offense have no predetermined limit.

The maximum sentence for an individual convicted of 'criminal negligence causing death' is life imprisonment. Paul Stevenson is President of Occupational First Aid and a Red Cross First Aid Instructor. These two folk from are located in Kamloops, Canada but will provide health & safety training wherever you need them: Elaine Wolfson who has taught Occupational Health and Safety First Aid for over 25 years and with a practical background in Mining and Sawmill Construction has first hand knowledge of the training requirements of companies and individuals.

Ralph Smith who has over 15 years instructional experience in First Aid and related programs and with a background in manufacturing and financial institutions can provide Human Resources and Occupational Health training. Provides expert witnesses and training course in health and safety much of it applicable to mines. Offers courses and workshops in filed safety awareness. The safety and training committee prepared guidelines for the.

Are listed by function. LOSS CONTROL MANAGEMENT The project manager made all employees and consultants (including myself) complete a self-study course in Loss Control Management. There were no fatalities on this project and minimal accidents. But control of quality and health and safety were strict. I had to remove from site an employee when the scraper operators complained that he was not paying attention to their passage over the fill. A fellow engineer was banned from site for not wearing his safety belt.

A competing consultant's employee was removed from site for not using his harness when he went on a roof to do repair work. I still have the book ' on my desk and recommend it to whoever I can. By way of background: the book is but one of the products of DET NORSKE VERITAS a company founded in 1864 as an independent foundation dedicated to safeguarding life, property and the environment. According to information on their website, DNV has over 4,000 employees operating in more than 100 countries working in partnership with many of the world's most successful companies.

In Canada DNV is associated with BURNELL & ASSOCIATES INC., a safety/loss control management consultants who since 1985 have been an independent distributor of safety, environmental and quality products and services for DNV. The only mine that I could find that has used DNV's approaches is New Boliden who state on their that they are a leading mining and smelting company with operations in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ireland.

Boliden's main products are copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver. The number of employees is approximately 4 500 and the turnover amounts to approximately EUR 2 billion annually. The International Safety Rating System, ISRS, was first introduced at Boliden Tara Mines Limited in 2000 by Det Norske Veritas, DNV.

The ISRS is a Management System for Safety and Loss Control. Now the mine has an established Loss Control Management System. The mine reports major improvements in lost time accident frequencies and advances in developing risk assessments. SAGO MINE DISASTER REPORT A long and detailed report on the Sago Mine Disaster: at this is the 101-page preliminary report to Governor Joe Manchin III written by J. Davitt McAteer and dated July 2006. I quote from the cover letter: ' This is a preliminary report primarily because we do not yet have all the answers about the disaster's proximate cause.

But in your initial charge to me you directed that if, during the course of the investigation, we were able to reach conclusions about improvements to mine safety and health which could be implemented along the way, we should make these conclusions available. We are doing so in this report, which includes numerous recommendations to improve mine safety and mine rescue. We offer these recommendations in full awareness that more remains to be done. But that should not be a rationale for delay. There are significant technologies and equipment available today that could be making our coal mines significantly safer tomorrow-for example by improving communication and the ability to locate miners, and, when escape is not possible, improving miners' chances of surviving an explosion or fire by providing refuge chambers.' COAL MINE DEATHS From the Charleston Gazette: Twenty-four West Virginia coal miners died on the job in 2006, the most in any single year for a quarter-century, according to state records.

Nationwide, 47 coal miners were killed, the largest annual death toll since 1995, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. As families and mine safety advocates marked Tuesday’s anniversary of the Sago Mine disaster, federal and state officials promised more reforms to reverse last year’s deadly results. In West Virginia, Gov. Joe Manchin has promised more steps to build on legislation passed after Sago and the deaths of two miners in a fire at the Aracoma Alma No. “It’s been a horrible, horrific year,” Manchin said in an interview two weeks ago.

“No one should go through this if we can prevent it, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” Manchin’s legislative agenda for 2007 will be announced in a week, during the governor’s annual State of the State address on Jan. That same day, the administration will unveil its proposals for next year’s budget, including any enhancements for the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training. In Washington, congressional Democrats are promising more hearings on the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s performance now that their party is in the majority. “In the new Congress, we will conduct thorough oversight on the state of worker safety in America’s coal and noncoal mines,” said Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat who will chair the House Education and the Workforce Committee. Rahall, D-W.Va., said that passage last year of the MINER Act “is just one marker on the long route to undoing years of neglectful and industry-slanted policies at MSHA.” In a prepared statement, Rahall also called on MSHA to take tougher steps to protect coal miners from lightning-induced explosions underground.

“Lightning has been fingered as the chief suspect in the Sago disaster, yet we still lack so many answers about how it entered the mine,” Rahall said. “As long as that question remains unresolved, the lessons of Sago are incomplete. MSHA has an obligation to continue to assess the threat of lightning to underground mines and to issue guidance to prevent future lightning-induced tragedies.” Twelve miners died in the Sago disaster, and two weeks later two more West Virginia miners died in a fire at Massey’s Aracoma Mine. Overall, the 24 miners who died in West Virginia in 2006 was the most in any year since 1981, when 28 miners died, according to the state’s count. Twenty-one of those deaths occurred in underground mines, one at a surface mine and two at aboveground mine-related facilities.

Of the underground deaths, three were in falls of mine roofs or walls and three involved coal-haulage equipment. West Virginia led the nation in coal-mining deaths, followed by Kentucky, where 16 miners died.

Five of the Kentucky deaths came in the May 20 explosion at the Darby Mine. Alabama reported two coal deaths. Arizona, Maryland, Montana, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia each reported one. MSHA has so far declined to include one of West Virginia’s deaths — the drowning of a security guard in a mine pond — in its nationwide count. Across the country, deaths in noncoal mines were actually down in 2006. MSHA counted 25 such deaths, down from 35 in 2005. The total deaths in all mining sectors — 72 — was the highest since 2001, when 72 also died, according to MSHA. MINE ACCIDENTS This is why accidents happen on mines and people die: ten silly little things happen; each is trivial and insignificant in and of itself; but they all align in just the right way; and then there are one, two, three, and four people dead.

The blame lies with every one of the ten people who let each of the ten silly little things happen, even though each of them is as innocent of ill intent as new snow. And not one of them is guilty of classic negligence. This is a puerile statement of the profound thesis that incident control eliminates fatal accidents. In short if you want a safe work place you must manage trivial incidents in a no-fault environment.

We can all manage and eliminate trivial incidents. None of us can control the conjuncture of ten incidents and the horrible death of many. This perspective is glaringly absent from a news report (at ) that I have just read on the death of four people last April at the Sullivan Mine in Kimberly, BC. In the report you have a Capilano College professor assigning the deaths to the design of a sump that filled a shed with oxygen-poor air. You have the official report coming to the profound conclusion that the conjuncture of circumstance that killed the four has never happened before, so that everybody is beyond reproach. Then we have a UBC professor (whom I know and like) saying it is all the fault of putting clay over some waste rock dump downdrains. To all of this, one can only reply: FIDDLE-STICKS.

I am no expert on the accident, I have not seen the site, and I can barely read the scribbles that constitute the official accident report (available if you have patience to wait for it to download at.) So in due modesty I should have no opinion. But that is not my want or wit, so here goes. Stand by and if you do not like what I write and conclude, comment below and prove me wrong. Please, however, do not depose me as an expert, for I am not an expert.