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• This presentation is based on content presented
  at the Mines Safety Roadshow held in October 2009
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Toolbox presentation

• Mines safety issues in Western Australia

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Fatalities in 2009

• A 50 year old foreman employed by a high-pressure
  water de-scaling contractor was fatally injured
  when he fell down a discharge chute at a refinery
  in the early hours of 2 September.
•  A 26 year old service crewman employed on an
  Eastern Goldfields underground gold mine was
  fatally injured when he fell through an ore pass
  grizzly in the early hours of 8 August.
• A 45 year old scaffolder employed by a contractor
  on a Pilbara site was fatally injured when he
  fell through a grid mesh floor to a floor 7
  metres below at about 3.00 am on 19 March.
•  A 34 year old workshop fitter employed on a
  Pilbara iron ore mine was fatally injured when a
  dozer belly plate fell onto him during
  maintenance work at about 3.15 am on 30 May.

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Fatalities in 2009 (continued)

• A 56 year old track maintenance worker in the
  Pilbara was fatally injured at about 3.18 am on
  the morning of 24 February when he was struck by
  a passing iron ore train. He was engaged with
  others in tamping of ballast on the track at the
  siding, where there are two parallel railway
  tracks. Some time before, a full ore train had
  passed on the way into Port Hedland. It appears
  that the deceased was struck by an empty ore
  train travelling from Port Hedland to one of the
  iron ore mines.
• A 54 year old truck driver met her death after an
  incident on the evening of 6 January at a large
  open pit gold operation in the Eastern
  Goldfields. She had apparently been cleaning the
  windscreen of a haul truck, when she fell to the
  ground from the deck of the truck. She suffered
  serious head and chest injuries and died in
  hospital on the afternoon of 7 January.

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Key issues

• Job hazard analysis (JHAs, JSAs etc.)
• Major risks not identified
• Lack of quality
• Employees not following controls
• High level of risk acceptance
• Change management
• Overly complex
• Not consistently applied
• Safety and health representatives not involved

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Key issues (continued)

• Safety and health representatives
• Election details not always registered with
  Department
• Training delays
• Lack of resources
• Monthly inspections not conducted
• Not involved in accident investigations where
  appropriate
• Poor management of SHRs consultation,
  mentoring, coaching

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Key issues (continued)

• Supervision
• Lack of daily workplace inspections
• Lack of field time
• Stressful position
• High turnover
• Isolation procedures
• Not uniform
• Complex
• Breaches not consistently dealt with

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Key issues (continued)

• Barricading and delineation
• Inconsistent placed so limits uncertain
• Poor signage Is purpose clearly and succinctly
  stated? Visibility?
• Missing, damaged and dirty delineators
• Guarding of machinery
• Unguarded or inadequately guarded machinery
• Not compliant with AS1755

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Bullying and other inappropriate behaviour

• Bullying is repeated unreasonable or
  inappropriate behaviour directed towards a worker
  or group of workers that creates a risk to health
  and safety.
• People should not be afraid to raise a safety
  issue for fear of being targeted and harrassed.

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What are the statistics telling us?

• Lost time injury LTI
• Results in absence from work for at least one
  full day or shift any time after the day or shift
  on which the injury occurred.
• Disabling injury DI
• Work injury (not LTI) that results in injured
  person being unable to fully perform his or her
  regular job any time after the day or shift on
  which the injury occurred, regardless of whether
  or not the person is rostered to work.

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What are the statistics telling us? (continued)

• Days lost covers the days the person does not
  work when scheduled to do so.
• Days off includes days lost, rostered days off,
  and days when alternative or light duties are
  performed or hours are restricted. In effect, the
  time when the person is not able to do the job
  for which they were employed.

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What are the statistics telling us? (continued)

• Accidents related to manual tasks
• (data for 2008-09 as at 31 August 2009)

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What are the statistics telling us? (continued)

• Musculoskeletal disorders related to manual
  tasks
• (data for 2008-09 as at 31 August 2009)

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What are the statistics telling us? (continued)

• Musculoskeletal disorders related to manual
  tasks (continued)

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What are the statistics telling us? (continued)

• Injury data for 2006 2009

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Where to now?

• How can we reduce the likelihood of a serious
  incident?
• Work together to nurture safety cultures that
  are positive or resilient
• Measure of success?
• What people at all levels in an organisation do
  and say when their commitment to safety is not
  being scrutinised what they do when no-one is
  watching