Open cut: the surface ERT and the plant it protects.
Surface emergency response, the mining fleet’s pre-starts, plant quarantine after a hot tyre or a lightning strike, and the explosives and chemicals kept as records.
Why it matters
Plant incidents are emergencies
A hot tyre, a tyre or brake fire, a lightning strike or contact with power sets an exclusion and a machine that must not move.
Blasting runs every day
Magazines, blast records, misfires and security events all need their record kept.
The fleet is the risk
Haul trucks, loaders and dozers each carry fire suppression, brakes and lights that the pre-start must catch.
- Plant quarantine that takes a machine out of service until an officer clears it, and plant fire records
- Surface mining plant pre-starts; a fire suppression fault restricts the machine
- The explosives ledger, blast records, misfires and security events with the notifications made
- A hazardous chemicals register with safety data sheets and site totals against your placard quantities
- The surface team, rescue vehicles and fire equipment on the readiness board
Plant checks in the starter library
- Haul truck pre-start
- Articulated dump truck pre-start
- Excavator or shovel pre-start
- Wheel loader pre-start
- Dozer pre-start
- Grader pre-start
- Water cart pre-start (fire role)
- Fuel and lube service truck pre-start
- Blasthole drill pre-start
- Dynamic service brake test (surface)
Starting points to adapt. Limits are never set for you: your site enters its own from the maker and its procedures.
Rule packs that cover open cut
Queensland coal mines
Values confirmedThe greater of 5 or 5% of coal mine workers. Emergency plan tested every 12 months. Explosives stores inspected at least every 3 months, records kept 5 years.
Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017 s 173; Explosives Regulation 2017New South Wales coal mines
Values confirmed5% of the underground workforce, contractors included. 6 hours under oxygen in 24. Plan tested yearly. Self-rescuer training every 6 months; coal effort training every 3 years.
Coal Industry Act 2001 s 36 and Mines Rescue NSW rules; WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 ss 96, 103Queensland metalliferous mines and quarries
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested every 12 months; rescue numbers set by the site. Explosives as for Queensland coal.
Mining and Quarrying Safety and Health Regulation 2017 s 40New South Wales metalliferous mines
Values to confirmPlan tested yearly. Self-rescuer training every 6 months. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.
WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation 2022 ss 96, 103Western Australia mines
Values to confirmPlan tested at least yearly. Refuge chamber inspection every 7 days. Explosives stores inspected monthly, records kept 2 years. Rescue numbers by risk assessment.
Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022 r 669; Dangerous Goods Safety (Explosives) Regulations 2007Victoria mines
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested yearly.
Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 r 435Model WHS (Mines): SA, Tasmania, NT
Values to confirmEmergency plan tested every 12 months.
Model Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations as adopted in eachNew Zealand mining and tunnelling
Values confirmedTwo teams of six where 40 or more work underground. Self-rescuer training quarterly. Plan tested every 12 months.
Health and Safety at Work (Mining Operations and Quarrying Operations) Regulations 2016; WorkSafe ACOP Emergency preparedness 6.1, 6.3Papua New Guinea (company standard)
Values to confirmYour company standard, entered with you.
Mining (Safety) Act; large operators set their own standardSee 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.
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