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Please read this before using presentation

• This presentation is based on content presented
  at the Exploration Safety Roadshow held in
  November 2008
• It is made available for non-commercial use (e.g.
  toolbox meetings) subject to the condition that
  the PowerPoint file is not altered without
  permission from Resources Safety
• Supporting resources, such as brochures and
  posters, are available from Resources Safety
• For resources, information or clarification,
  please contact
• ResourcesSafety_at_docep.wa.gov.au
• or visit
• www.docep.wa.gov.au/ResourcesSafety

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Toolbox presentation Occupational health
reporting requirements
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Resources Safety reporting systems

• Adopt risk management approach to hazardous
  substances
• Personal exposure monitoring CONTAM
• Biological monitoring MINEHEALTH
• State Mining Engineer may request results
• Health surveillance MINEHEALTH
• Initial and periodic health assessments
• Additional health assessments (risk-based)
• Notification of occupational disease MINEHEALTH

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CONTAM

• Regular risk assessment of exposure to airborne
  contaminants
• CONTAM sampling quotas not issued for exploration
  not on a mine site but Resources Safety may
  request representative sampling results
• Only CONTAM registered samplers may submit results

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CONTAM forms online
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Biological monitoring result form online

• Mines Safety and Inspection Regulations 1995
• 3.28(1). Biological monitoring
• The principal employer and each employer at a
  mine must ensure that biological monitoring is
  carried out in respect of employees who engage in
  specified occupational exposure work at the mine,
  where there is a valid biological monitoring
  procedure and a reasonable likelihood that
  accepted values might be exceeded.

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Biological monitoring aims

• To assist in treatment of affected worker
  following accidental exposures
• For routine screening to assess if a hazardous
  substance has entered the body and accumulating
  to levels that may cause damage
• To assess dose-dependent health effects

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MineHealth health assessment
HAZARDS dust silica noise

• Questionnaire
• Symptoms and smoking status
• Lung function
• Airways and lung capacity
• Chest x-ray
• Hearing test
• Noise-induced hearing loss

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MineHealth forms online
Only approved person or medical practitioner may
complete health assessment form
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Notification of outcome of health assessment

• No specific notification form required when
  medical practitioner or approved person is
  advising an employer of the outcome of an
  employees health assessment, including
  biological monitoring
• However, template is available online to ensure
  the notification process is completed
  satisfactorily without unnecessary delay, and is
  a useful guide for those notifying for the first
  time

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Noise report and plan

• Need to prepare a noise report as soon as
  practicable after mining commences, and within a
  year
• Additional noise reports required
• if increase in noise exposure likely to exceed 5
  dB
• every five years until exposure below action
  level
• if requested by Resources Safety
• Data collected by approved noise officer using
  approved procedures and equipment

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Noise forms online
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Occupational disease notification form online

• Mines Safety and Inspection Regulations 1995
• 3.39. Notice of occupational disease
• If an employer at a mine receives advice from an
  employee or a person on behalf of an employee
  that the employee has an occupational disease,
  the employer must, as soon as is practicable,
  notify the Mines occupational physician in a form
  approved for that purpose by the State mining
  engineer that the employee has the disease.