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What’s happening out there? Industry safety performance

Reporting accidents and incidents  An accident must be reported:  if it causes an injury that prevents the person from returning the following day to the duties they were doing at the time of the accident  regardless of whether the person is rostered to work the following day or not  if the person has lost time from work, been assigned to alternate or light duties or been put on restricted hours  Reporting requirement applies to:  employees  self-employed persons  contractors and their employees 3

Injury notification  Manager must ensure that any injury is reported to:  District Inspector  if requested, trade union to which the injured person belongs  For serious injury:  notification as soon as possible by fastest method  subsequently confirmed in writing using occurrence report form  may require judgement call about whether person will be disabled for 2 or more weeks 4

Serious injury  An injury that:  is disabling for 2 or more weeks or  involved unconsciousness from gas inhalation or asphyxiation or  results from an accident, including fuming, arising from the use of explosives or blasting agents 5

Occurrences and potentially serious occurrences  Occurrences – Section 78 of Act requires ten occurrence types to be reported to the District Inspector whether or not the incident caused an injury or damaged property  Potentially serious occurrences – Section 79 requires the reporting of any occurrence that, in the manager’s opinion, had the potential to cause serious injury or harm to health (i.e. near misses) 6

Reporting categories on occurrence form  Extensive subsidence, settlement or fall of ground or any major collapse  Earth movement caused by a seismic event  Outbreak of fire above or below ground  Breakage of a rope, cable or other gear by which persons are raised or lowered  Inrush of water  Dust ignition below ground  Presence or outburst of potentially harmful or asphyxiant gas 7

Reporting categories for occurrences (continued)  Accidental, delayed or fast ignition or detonation of explosives  Explosion or bursting of compressed air receivers, boilers or pressure vessels  Electric shock or burn or dangerous occurrence involving electricity  Poisoning or exposure to toxic gas or fumes where persons are affected  Loss of control, failure of braking or steering of heavy earthmoving equipment 8

Reporting categories for occurrences (continued)  Potentially serious occurrence – Section 79 of MSIA  In manager’s opinion  “Near misses” not covered by previous ten categories Other categories on form  Potentially serious injury – Section 76(2a) of MSIA  Where someone is injured and it appears likely to be serious  Incidents affecting registered plant – Regulation 6.36 of MSIR 9

Importance of reporting Why might reporting be neglected? What are the consequences if incident reporting is:  Not done?  Not done well?  Not followed up?  Not recorded (regardless of regulatory requirements)?  Followed-up but outcome not communicated to workforce? 10

Consequences 11 What sort of safety culture allows this?

12 Safety culture spectrum TypeVulnerableRule followersRobustEnlightenedResilient Characteristics In denial Messengers ‘shot’ Whistleblowers dismissed or discredited Protection of the powerful Information hoarded Responsibility shirked Failure punished or covered up New ideas crushed Deal ‘by the book’ Conform to rules Target = ‘zero’ Reactive Repair not reform Information neglected Responsibility compartmentalised New ideas = ‘problems’ Develop risk management capacity Enhance systems Improve suite of performance measures Develop action plans Monitor/review progress Clarify/refine objectives Active leadership Safety management plan widely known Competent people with experience Accountabilities understood Advanced performance measures Regular reviews Range of emergency responses catered for Strive for resilience of systems Reform rather than repair Responsibility shared Actively seek new ideas Messengers rewarded Proactive as well as reactive Failures prompt far-reaching inquiries Flexibility of operation Consistent mindset = ‘wariness’ Descriptor ‘in disarray’ pathological ‘organised’ reactive ‘credible’ calculative ‘trusting’ proactive ‘disciplined’ generative StrategySanctionDirectEncouragePartnerChampion

Occurrences reported for ~ 2,200 reports for > 70,000 FTEs 80 reports Drill/power shovel incident 631 reports Outbreak of fire 13

Drilling injury statistics for last 5 years – body part 14 Arm: 4 Hands/Wrists: 6 Head/Neck: 7 Eye: 2 Foot/Ankle:10 Fingers: 24 Back: 6 Leg:14 Shoulder :4 Abdomen: 1 Knee: 5 Toe: 1 Chest: 2

SIR 145 Mines Safety Significant Incident Report No. 145 [2007] Driller’s offsider struck by dust deflector box or “wear bend” Fatal accident 15

SIR 145 Incident  A driller’s offsider was fatally injured when struck by a "wear bend" that became detached from the cyclone at an exploration drilling site  Wear bend -  steel attachment built for connecting the sample hose to the cyclone  reinforced with thick metal blocks to withstand abrasive nature of drill cuttings on return side of reverse circulation (RC) drilling process  weighed about 40 kg 16

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SIR 145 Causes and contributing factors  High pressure compressed air was used in an attempt to clear blockage  Employees were not standing clear of sample hose while the driller was attempting to unblock it  Wear bend became detached from cyclone as an insufficient number of bolts and nuts was installed  Bolts and nuts used to attach wear bend to cyclone were too small for intended application and were pulled through bolt holes on the cyclone 18

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SIR 145  No safe working procedures for  unblocking a sample hose  installing a wear bend  Safety devices for securing wear bend to cyclone in case of a failure of the bolts and nuts were not connected at time of the accident  No proper engineering design for wear bend if subjected to high pressure compressed air during drilling process 20

SIR 145 Some of the recommendations  Properly engineered design process for all components subjected to high pressures and forces during RC drilling and sampling process  Provide approved fabrication drawings to those carrying out the fabrication work, and check work to ensure it complies with the design 21

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SIR 145  Valuable tool for safe work procedures – consider actions recommended in following Mines Safety Significant Incident Reports  No. 3 Compressed air hose connection – fatal accident, issued 29 September 1989*  No. 92 R C drill rig 3” sample hose connection – serious accident, issued 23 February 1998  No. 109 Fitting of tile boxes on drilling rigs, issued 9 October 2001*  No. 119 Driller’s offsider blasted with sample dust under pressure, issued 4 November 2002 * See handout 24

Inspectorate view What has been happening in exploration over the past 12 months? 25

Mining injury report forms for exploration activities Western Australia 61 reports received 1 January to 30 November driller’s offsider 11 driller 12 field assistant 4 other (e.g. geologist, botanist) 26

Mining injury report forms for exploration activities Kalgoorlie Goldfields 22 reports received 1 January to 30 November driller’s offsider 5 driller 3 field assistant 27

Mining injury report forms for exploration activities Kalgoorlie Goldfields – Driller’s offsider 14 reports received 1 January to 30 November hand, including fingers 2 arm or elbow 1 back 1 head 1 shoulder 1 ankle 1 heat stress 28 3 rod handling 1 cut hand on sharp rod 1 crushed hand lowering mast 1 crushed hand unhooking trailer 1 hammer bit fell on finger

Mining injury report forms for exploration activities Kalgoorlie Goldfields – Driller 5 reports received 1 January to 30 November hand, including fingers 1 arm or elbow 1 back 29 1 crushed finger lifting HQ barrel 1 crushed thumb breaking out rod 1 crushed finger unhooking trailer