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Haul Truck and Light Vehicle Collision
What An unloaded Caterpillar 789C haul truck and light vehicle collided at a controlled mine intersection. The right side front and rear wheels of the haul truck ran over and crushed the cab of the light vehicle. The light vehicle driver... Read more
Guidelines for Vehicle Access
A guideline to the safe design and use of vehicle accesses. Design considerations show appropriate step installations and heights as well as hand rail positions. A detailed guide to correct entry and exit procedures shows correct and incorrect procedures with... Read more
Minerals Industry Safety Handbook Part 5 : Equipment and Machinery
This chapter of the Minerals Industry Safety Handbook covers the mine site hazards associated with machinery. Sections in this chapter cover hazards and where they may occur (confined spaces, elevated platforms etc.), hazardous plant (pressure vessels, guarding of moving parts),... Read more
Vehicle and equipment access
A pamphlet that discusses the key hazards and safety issues associated with accessing, alighting, cleaning and maintaining large mining equipment and vehicles. Arising from these actions is the possibility of serious injury, repetitive strain or limited operator visibility. ... Read more
Personnel Access to Heavy Mining Machinery : Guideline
This MOSHAB approved guideline outlines the requirements to be followed for safe worker access to heavy mining machinery and provides practical guidance on essential design aspects and operating practice. It describes access ways to machines, and maintenance, servicing and cleaning... Read more
Conveyor return idler guard
Problem An unguarded conveyor roller exposures personnel to the risk of entrapment between the return idlers and the conveyor belt while undertaking conveyor maintenance Solution A guard system designed to protect personnel from exposure to the risk of entrapment between the return idlers... Read more
Preventing Slips/Falls and Loss of Balance In Industrial Workplaces
The purpose of this procedure is to provide a protocol for the creation of procedures/practices to ensure that persons will not be injured or harmed by falling from heights. It is also intended that this procedure will assist the firm... Read more
Preventing Falls in Industrial Workplaces
Anyone can fall at work. One in five lost time injuries involve falls. Eighty people are injured every day by falling at work - thats one every twenty minutes. ... Read more
Development of a methodolgy for the assessment of human factors issues relative to trips, slips and fall accidents in the
a paper based tool to assess the human factors issues associated with slip, trip and fall risks ... Read more
Human Factors Engineering Specific Analysis
To provide the reader with information on wether a tool or piece of equipment is accepatable in terms of Human Factors engineering (HFE) design which can be very dependent on the manufacturers testing program prior to marketing. Many HFE issues,... Read more
Ergonomic Design Handbook for Continuous-Miners
This handbook provides ergonomic information which can be used to eliminate or reduce the design and operational limitations in Continuous-Miners. ... Read more
Major Hazard Standard: Underground Fires
The purpose of this standard is to prevent the outbreak of fire through the control of heat sources and flammable materials, and to minimise the effect of a fire through monitoring and appropriate first response. The standard covers all WMC... Read more
Truck fill boom for coolant and potable water
Problem Equipment damage resulting from operators failing to depressurise the radiator when adding coolant instigated a change in the procedure for topping up Cat 789 trucks. This change to the procedure identified an increased risk of slips and trips and the... Read more
Truck Driving
A pamphlet that discusses the hazards associated with mining trucks. There are several possible scenarios that can occur during the operation of mining trucks. Including, collisions, vehicle rollover, injury whilst accessing and egressing the truck, reversing over edge of... Read more
Working Near Large Mobile Equipment
A pamphlet that discusses the issues associated with working near large machinery, and primarily the major hazard of restricted operator visibility. The major concern is a collision with a light vehicles or personnel. A list of safe work... Read more
Fatal Risk Control Protocol: 1 Light Vehicles
The intent of this protocol is to eliminate or minimise the risk of fatalities, injuries and incidents arising from the use of light vehicles in BHP Billiton surface operations. This protocol applies to all light vehicles that can be road... Read more
Fatal Risk Control Protocol: 2 Surface Mobile Equipment
The intent of this protocol is to eliminate or minimise the risk of fatalities, injuries and incidents arising from the use of surface mobile equipment at all BHP Billiton operations. This protocol applies to all surface mobile equiment (excluding light... Read more
Fatal Risk Control Protocol: 8 Isolation
The intent of this protocol is to eliminate or minimise the risk of fatalities, injuries and incidents arising from the uncontrolled release of energy or hazardous materials at all BHP Billiton operations. This protocol applies to the isolation of all... Read more
Fatal Risk Control Protocol: 9 Working at Heights
The intent of this protocol is to eliminate or minimise the risk of fatalities, injuries and incidents arising from working at heights at all BHP Billiton operations. This protocol applies wherever there is potential for any person to fall two... Read more
Fire Traps Truck Driver
What A truck driver was trapped when flames surrounded the drivers cab of a 100-tonne capacity truck. Due to the quick action of fellow drivers, he was not seriously injured. Why (a) The hydraulic hose from the tray lift cylinder had burst, spraying... Read more
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