GHD Mining Capability

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A Safe Mining Industry Success from a Cultural
Shift
by Paul Currie GHD Manager Mining
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The Challenge

• The mining industry in many countries has faced
  significant safety challenges. It has at times
  seen many tragic disasters, adverse public
  scrutiny and difficult operating environments.
• Driven by deep concerns about the sustainability
  of its industry and welfare of its people, the
  mining industry has made significant advances in
  mine safety performance over many years.
• We must take responsibility or loose our public
  license to operate
• The entire industry has a Duty of Care

Zero Harm
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Why a Cultural Shift?

• Many countries have seen significant overall
  improvements in safety across complex industries
  by implementing a cultural shift in attitude to
  safety.
• Focusing on symptoms or one area will not achieve
  a quick improvement
• A holistic shift across the entire industry with
  involvement from regulators, mining management
  and the entire workforce is required.

Safety Culture Maturity Model (StepChange
2006)
Step Change by a Cultural Shift
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How?

• A holistic shift across the entire industry with
  involvement from regulators, mining management
  and the entire workforce is required.
• law reform by Governments
• cultural change at the coal face
• standardised safety metrics and mandatory
  reporting
• the adoption of risk-based safety systems
• improved regulation

• the development and adoption of industry
  standards, guidelines and codes of practice
• industry led workshops, trai low of 2 fatilities
  in 12/13 and then ning and conferences and
• awards for leadership in managing safety.

Must have Engagement and Ownership by All
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Risk Assessment and Management
Why a risk-based approach?

• Existing prescriptive/compliance based regulatory
  regimes didnt prevent major loss of life.
• Regulators developed/updated risk based
  legislation following major industrial disasters
• Safety Case post Piper Alpha 1988 (167
  fatalities)
• Industry developed risk processes/techniques in
  petrochemical , oil and gas sector
• ICI (now Orica) onshore
• Shell offshore and onshore, etc
• SQRA developed in Australia in 2001 for
  petrochemical sector
• Migrated the process to the mining sector in in
  2003, with Rio Tinto applying at a mine in
  Australia, then mandated across global operations
  in 2006

Developed /refined process from other leading
sectors
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SQRA
GHD have developed a rigorous seven step semi
quantitative risk assessment (SQRA) process to
undertake formal safety assessments to identify
major hazards (credible multiple and recurring
single fatality consequence events), assess their
risks, identify and analyse the critical controls
for their effectiveness.

• Highly structured approach
• Widely used in all parts of mining
• mine
• infrastructure
• ports
• smelting
• transportation
• Use of industry tools (e.g. bow ties)
• Quantification of results - generated by the
  workforce

Approach relies on those with knowledge of the
operation/project
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A simple bowtie

• Falling off a bike

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Bowtie analysis
Diagrammatical approach shows linkages
Reduction Mitigation Controls
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We must all take on the responsibility to ensure
no fatality or injury is acceptable in our
industry.
Questions ?