Mine rescue ready, shift by shift, at every site.
Rescue readiness for mine and industrial emergency response teams: rescue teams against your rule pack, breathing apparatus, self-rescuers and refuge chambers, incidents, explosives and chemicals, and the site ambulance, underground or out of range.
Why it matters
No signal is normal
Underground, in the pit or at a remote gate, a check that needs signal will not get done. It has to work offline and sync later.
The rules set a number
A Queensland coal mine needs at least the greater of 5 or 5% of its coal mine workers trained in breathing apparatus and rescue. Knowing whether this shift meets it means knowing who is on site and current, now.
Escape equipment is where gaps hide
A self-rescuer past its date, a cache short of par or a refuge chamber inspection missed should show the day it happens, not at the next audit.
Breathing apparatus and gas detection
Sets, cylinders and detectors carry after-use tests, bench tests, bump tests and calibrations that must be current before anyone goes in.
Explosives and chemicals are part of the picture
Magazines and chemical stores need their ledger, inspections and quantities kept, and the response team needs to know where they are.
The emergency plan relies on the ERT
Site emergency planning assumes the response team, its equipment and its places are ready. Inspectors, auditors and principals ask for the evidence.
What Escudo Emergency does for mine and industrial emergency response
The readiness board
- With mine rescue switched on, one board per mine site in four lanes: rescue, equipment, escape and medical, each Ready, Restricted or Not ready with its reasons in plain words
- The rescue minimum worked out from the site’s rule pack and headcounts, for example the greater of 5 or 5% of coal mine workers in Queensland, or two teams of six where 40 or more work underground in New Zealand
- Rule packs for Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, SA, Tasmania and the NT, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, each value with its source and those to confirm marked
- Each change opens a readiness event with its cause, acknowledged by an officer with a note; alerts in the dashboard escalate after 15 and 60 minutes
- Worked out every two minutes, and straight away when the roster, a team or a place changes
Teams and people
- Underground, surface, first response, inertisation and medical teams, with positions such as captain, vice-captain, fresh air base controller, BA technician and site paramedic
- The competencies each position needs; a person counts only while every one is current
- Sign on, on call or unavailable, one position per person, recorded on the dashboard
- Oxygen duty minutes counted where the rule pack sets a limit
Places, caches and equipment by location
- A location tree for each site: portals, declines, levels and drives, with refuge chambers, change-over stations, caches and fresh air bases where they really are
- Refuge chambers, caches, first aid rooms, helipads, magazines and chemical stores each carry a QR tag, their own checks, defects and a status
- Caches and change-over stations counted against their par of self-rescuers
- Equipment by location, with its condition and its own test regimes: bench tests, services, calibrations, bump tests and more
Breathing apparatus, self-rescuers and gas
- Closed-circuit and open-circuit sets with pre-use, after-use, bench test and service checks; a set awaiting its after-use test is not counted as ready
- Self-rescuers by serial with their end-of-life date, issued to a person or held in a cache
- Gas detector bump tests and calibrations; an overdue detector restricts the equipment lane
Exercises, TARPs and incidents
- A TARP library in the site’s own words, with a test interval and a reminder when a test is due
- Exercises with their timeline from the call to the stand-down, and findings tracked as actions to closure
- Incidents with the fresh air base and control log, gas readings and the resources sent; readiness is held until replenishment is recorded
- Medical responses kept as times and counts only, never patient details
- The mine readiness pack, printed or as CSV files with a SHA-256 manifest
Explosives and chemicals registers
- An explosives ledger for each magazine with the balance after each entry, stocktakes with variances, blast records, misfires and security events with the notifications made
- Magazine inspections reminded at the rule pack’s interval, for example monthly in Western Australia and at least every 3 months in Queensland
- A hazardous chemicals register with safety data sheets, and site totals against the placard and manifest quantities the site enters
- Records only: Escudo Ready never authorises explosives handling and never decides that a store or a quantity complies
Mine medical and permits
- Surface and underground ambulance checks, the monitor defibrillator daily test, medicine kits by seal number and earliest expiry, and cold chain logs
- Safety notices matched to units in the register, with an extra daily test added to the vehicle until each unit is actioned
- Medicines permits, mutual aid and mines rescue agreements and the emergency plan, with expiry and review dates
132 starter checks
- Breathing apparatus and self-rescuers, gas detection, refuges, caches, stations and escape, rescue vehicles, extrication, rope and confined space
- Fire and suppression, explosives and chemical records, exercises, callouts and replenishment
- Mine ambulances, medical equipment, medicine kits and cold chain, first aid places, exposure kits and medical response
- Mining plant pre-starts, surface and underground, with brake and exhaust tests; a fire suppression fault restricts the machine
- Limits are never set for you: your site enters its own
Works without signal
- Checks completed underground or in the pit, synced when the crew returns
- Photos held on the phone and sent later, with no duplicates and nothing lost
Vehicles, lights and defects
- Emergency warning lights and every siren tone, checked on every template, with a photo of the lights running
- Site beacons checked alongside, and beacons and horn on underground vehicles
- A failed item restricts the vehicle or place, or takes it off run, automatically
- Work orders to site maintenance, servicing by engine hours, kilometres or date, and handover between rosters
Report a fault the moment it is found.
Nobody waits for the next check or a phone call to the station. The crew who finds the problem reports it there and then, and the vehicle's status follows.
- 01Photograph it
From the vehicle screen, any time: on a job, at the hospital, on the sand. Live camera only, never the gallery.
- 02Say how serious
Critical takes it off run, major restricts it, minor is recorded. The crew decides on the spot.
- 03Everyone knows
The status changes on the board, a critical fault raises an alert for the officers in the dashboard, and the workshop has the photo, as soon as the phone has signal.
ERT rescue truck · shift check
Every item decides what a failure does to the vehicle. That is what turns a form into a readiness system.
An illustration. Your items, limits and outcomes come from your own procedures and equipment, and every template for a vehicle or vessel starts with the lights and siren checks.
The record your obligations call for
Your site’s emergency plan, principal hazard management and the mining laws where you operate set what the ERT must maintain. Escudo Emergency keeps the evidence that it was checked, shift by shift, and works out the board from your rule pack.
Records only. Escudo Emergency never authorises explosives handling, never decides that a store or a quantity complies, and never holds patient records, Schedule 8 balances or staff health information.
- Every check kept against the exact template version it was completed on
- An append-only audit log of who did what, when and where, which nobody can edit, including us
- Photos taken on the live camera and stamped on the phone with time, GPS position and compass heading
- A plain evidence rating on every walkaround, so a rushed or incomplete walk stands out
- Service, test and defect history for every vehicle and item of equipment
- Check records exported as a spreadsheet for audits, insurers and investigations
- All data and photos stored in Australia, in Sydney
Also suits tunnelling projects, quarries, processing plants, remote camps, oil and gas, ports, manufacturing and chemical plant emergency teams.
Other services
See it with your fleet
Send us one of your check sheets. We will build it as a walkaround and show you it running on a phone, with the status and records it produces.
Or email us: info@escudoready.com