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This presentation is based on content presented at the Exploration Safety Roadshow held in December 2010
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What’s happening out there?Industry safety performance
Reporting accidents and incidents
An accident must be reported: if it causes an injury that prevents the person from returning
the following day to the duties they were doing at the time of the accident
regardless of whether the person is rostered to work the following day or not
if the person has lost time from work, been assigned to alternate or light duties or been put on restricted hours
Reporting requirement applies to: employees self-employed persons contractors and their employees
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Injury notification
Manager must ensure that any injury is reported to: District Inspector if requested, trade union to which the injured person belongs
For serious injury: notification as soon as possible by fastest method subsequently confirmed in writing using occurrence report
form may require judgement call about whether person will be
disabled for 2 or more weeks
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Serious injury
An injury that: is disabling for 2 or more weeks
or involved unconsciousness from gas inhalation or
asphyxiation
or results from an accident, including fuming, arising from the
use of explosives or blasting agents
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Occurrences andpotentially serious occurrences
Occurrences – Section 78 of Act requires ten occurrence types to be reported to the District Inspector whether or not the incident caused an injury or damaged property
Potentially serious occurrences – Section 79 requires the reporting of any occurrence that, in the manager’s opinion, had the potential to cause serious injury or harm to health (i.e. near misses)
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Reporting categories onoccurrence form
Extensive subsidence, settlement or fall of ground or any major collapse
Earth movement caused by a seismic event
Outbreak of fire above or below ground Breakage of a rope, cable or other gear by
which persons are raised or lowered Inrush of water Dust ignition below ground Presence or outburst of potentially harmful
or asphyxiant gas
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Reporting categories for occurrences (continued)
Accidental, delayed or fast ignition or detonation of explosives
Explosion or bursting of compressed air receivers, boilers or pressure vessels
Electric shock or burn or dangerous occurrence involving electricity
Poisoning or exposure to toxic gas or fumes where persons are affected
Loss of control, failure of braking or steering of heavy earthmoving equipment
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Reporting categories for occurrences (continued)
Potentially serious occurrence – Section 79 of MSIA In manager’s opinion “Near misses” not covered by previous ten categories
Other categories on form Potentially serious injury – Section 76(2a) of MSIA
Where someone is injured and it appears likely to be serious
Incidents affecting registered plant – Regulation 6.36 of MSIR
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Importance of reporting
Why might reporting be neglected?
What are the consequences if incident reporting is: Not done? Not done well? Not followed up? Not recorded (regardless of regulatory requirements)? Followed-up but outcome not communicated to workforce?
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Consequences
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What sort of safety culture allows this?
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Safety culture spectrum
Type Vulnerable Rule followers Robust Enlightened Resilient
Characteristics In denial
Messengers ‘shot’
Whistleblowers dismissed or discredited
Protection of the powerful
Information hoarded
Responsibility shirked
Failure punished or covered up
New ideas crushed
Deal ‘by the book’
Conform to rules
Target = ‘zero’
Reactive
Repair not reform
Information neglected
Responsibility compartmentalised
New ideas = ‘problems’
Develop risk management capacity
Enhance systems
Improve suite of performance measures
Develop action plans
Monitor/review progress
Clarify/refine objectives
Active leadership
Safety management plan widely known
Competent people with experience
Accountabilities understood
Advanced performance measures
Regular reviews
Range of emergency responses catered for
Strive for resilience of systems
Reform rather than repair
Responsibility shared
Actively seek new ideas
Messengers rewarded
Proactive as well as reactive
Failures prompt far-reaching inquiries
Flexibility of operation
Consistent mindset = ‘wariness’
Descriptor‘in disarray’
pathological
‘organised’
reactive
‘credible’
calculative
‘trusting’
proactive
‘disciplined’
generative
Strategy Sanction Direct Encourage Partner Champion
Occurrences reported for 2009-10
~ 2,200 reports for > 70,000 FTEs
80 reports Drill/power shovel incident
631 reports Outbreak of fire
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Drilling injury statistics for last 5 years – body part
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Arm: 4
Hands/Wrists: 6
Head/Neck: 7
Eye: 2
Foot/Ankle:10
Fingers: 24
Back: 6
Leg:14
Shoulder :4
Abdomen: 1
Knee: 5
Toe: 1
Chest: 2
SIR 145
Mines Safety Significant Incident Report
No. 145 [2007]
Driller’s offsider struck by dust deflector box or “wear bend”
Fatal accident
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Incident
A driller’s offsider was fatally injured when struck by a "wear bend" that became detached from the cyclone at an exploration drilling site
Wear bend - steel attachment built for connecting the sample hose
to the cyclone reinforced with thick metal blocks to withstand abrasive
nature of drill cuttings on return side of reverse circulation (RC) drilling process
weighed about 40 kg16
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Causes and contributing factors
High pressure compressed air was used in an attempt to clear blockage
Employees were not standing clear of sample hose while the driller was attempting to unblock it
Wear bend became detached from cyclone as an insufficient number of bolts and nuts was installed
Bolts and nuts used to attach wear bend to cyclone were too small for intended application and were pulled through bolt holes on the cyclone
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SIR 145
No safe working procedures for unblocking a sample hose installing a wear bend
Safety devices for securing wear bend to cyclone in case of a failure of the bolts and nuts were not connected at time of the accident
No proper engineering design for wear bend if subjected to high pressure compressed air during drilling process
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SIR 145
Some of the recommendations
Properly engineered design process for all components subjected to high pressures and forces during RC drilling and sampling process
Provide approved fabrication drawings to those carrying out the fabrication work, and check work to ensure it complies with the design
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Valuable tool for safe work procedures – consider actions recommended in following Mines Safety Significant Incident Reports
No. 3 Compressed air hose connection – fatal accident, issued 29 September 1989*
No. 92 R C drill rig 3” sample hose connection – serious accident, issued 23 February 1998
No. 109 Fitting of tile boxes on drilling rigs, issued 9 October 2001* No. 119 Driller’s offsider blasted with sample dust under pressure,
issued 4 November 2002
* See handout
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Inspectorate view
What has been happening in exploration over the past 12 months?
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Mining injury report forms for exploration activities
Western Australia
61 reports received 1 January to 30 November 2010
34 driller’s offsider
11 driller
12 field assistant
4 other (e.g. geologist, botanist)
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Mining injury report forms for exploration activities
Kalgoorlie Goldfields
22 reports received 1 January to 30 November 2010
14 driller’s offsider
5 driller
3 field assistant
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Mining injury report forms for exploration activities
Kalgoorlie Goldfields – Driller’s offsider
14 reports received 1 January to 30 November 2010
7 hand, including fingers
2 arm or elbow
1 back
1 head
1 shoulder
1 ankle
1 heat stress28
3 rod handling
1 cut hand on sharp rod
1 crushed hand lowering mast
1 crushed hand unhooking trailer
1 hammer bit fell on finger
Mining injury report forms for exploration activities
Kalgoorlie Goldfields – Driller
5 reports received 1 January to 30 November 2010
3 hand, including fingers
1 arm or elbow
1 back
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1 crushed finger lifting HQ barrel
1 crushed thumb breaking out rod
1 crushed finger unhooking trailer