Know your mine is ready to respond.
A readiness board for every mine site, worked out from your rule pack: rescue teams signed on and current, breathing apparatus and gas detection, self-rescuers and refuge chambers, and the site’s medical response. Checked on a phone underground, with no signal.
Four lanes, worked out for every site.
Everything it doesRescue
Rescue-trained people on site and current against the rule pack’s minimum, every required team position filled by someone current, and people at an oxygen duty limit where the pack sets one.
Equipment
Breathing apparatus sets ready against what the minimum needs plus the site’s spares, gas detectors calibrated and in service, and rescue vehicles and fire appliances ready.
Escape
Self-rescuers in date and in service, caches and change-over stations at par, refuge chambers, change-over stations and escapeways ready, and their inspections on time.
Medical
Ambulances ready, medical positions filled by someone current, clinical equipment in date and tested, kits with a seal recorded, and first aid rooms, stations, helipads and casualty caches ready.
On top of the lanes: Items used at an incident and not yet replenished, permits and agreements past their expiry, and units under an open safety notice. Each change opens an event with its cause. Each lane is Ready, Restricted or Not ready with its reasons in plain words, worked out every two minutes and straight away when the roster, a team or a place changes.
Built for your operation
All mine typesOn the dashboard
See it in the walkthrough- Mine readiness
- Each site’s board: four lanes with their reasons, open changes to acknowledge, a drills note and the last 30 days.
- Rescue teams
- Teams, positions with the competencies each needs, sign on, availability and validations.
- Places and caches
- The location tree, places with their checks, and equipment by location with its regimes.
- Mine incidents
- Times, the TARP, the fresh air base and control log, resources and replenishment.
- Exercises and TARPs
- The TARP library, exercises with their timeline, and actions to closure.
- Explosives and chemicals
- The ledger, stocktakes, blasts, misfires and events; the chemicals register and site totals.
- Permits and agreements
- Medicines permits, licences, the emergency plan and agreements, with expiry and review dates.
- Plant quarantine and fires
- Open quarantines with the time left, clearances in the last 90 days, and plant fire records added up over 12 months.
- Inspections and notices
- Regulator visits, the notices they issue with their actions and outcome, and how long records are kept.
- Mines rescue service
- Every mine site side by side: readiness, rescue-trained against the pack, members, training rounds and machines held.
- Mine insights
- Time in each readiness state over 30 days, and today’s currency, checks on time, actions and response times.
- Drills and exercises
- The drill library, your plans with their own intervals and versions, the due list, runs with signatures, and the drill pack.
- Safety notices and the packs
- Notices matched to units in the register; the mine readiness pack and the responder site pack for each site.
Your jurisdiction’s numbers, with their source.
Each mine site chooses its rule pack. The board’s rescue minimum, inspection intervals and record periods come from it, every value carries its source, and values still to confirm with you are marked.
- Queensland coal mines
- Queensland metalliferous mines and quarries
- New South Wales coal mines
- New South Wales metalliferous mines
- Western Australia mines
- Victoria mines
- Model WHS (Mines): SA, Tasmania, NT
- New Zealand mining and tunnelling
- Papua New Guinea (company standard)
What Escudo Mining never does
It keeps the records, works out the board and reminds people. The decisions stay with your site, its licence holders and its procedures.
- Authorise anyone to store, issue, use or fire explosives
- Decide that a magazine, a chemical store or a quantity complies
- Declare a site capable, compliant or safe, or judge a TARP or an emergency plan
- Assess competence: it records training and validations
- Certify training from a drill: a drill record says what was done, by whom and when
- Say a machine is safe to return to work after a quarantine or a fire, or find the cause of a fire
- Treat a regulator’s notice as met: “actioned” is the site’s own record
- Hold patient records, medicine counts, Schedule 8 balances or administrations
- Hold fitness, medical or other health information about staff
- Share records across organisations, or keep contact numbers for the responder pack
- Set a limit or an interval for you: the site enters its own from the maker and its procedures
Preset drills, your intervals, everyone signs
12 preset drills, each with its steps and its source. Add one to your plans, set how often you run it, run it on the phone with no signal and print the drill pack.
- An interval only where a regulator states one, with its clause. Every other one is yours to set
- Each person signs for themselves, and the lead closes the run
- Findings become defects or corrective actions
- Overdue is a note and an alert, never a status
See it at your own site
Send us your refuge chamber inspection and your breathing apparatus checks. We will set up a mine site with your rule pack and show you the readiness board working.
Or email us: info@escudoready.com