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MARCSTA is a not for profit association.All proceeds are reinvested into the industry for future development of safety and training.

The Monitor circulates widely throughout the mining industry and contractors to mining companies in Australia

New Direction for MARCSTAIn recent years the drive to introduce nationallyrecognised workforce training has acceleratedin the Western Australian mining industryalthough somewhat tardily. This industry hastraditionally formulated and implemented itsown training, at least in the major producingcompanies.MARCSTA has, in principle, supportedstandardised quality occupational health andsafety training and this support showed itself inits generic surface and underground programswhich have gained wide support. Theseprograms are now delivered throughoutWestern Australia and in other states wherecontractors are employed.All states are now committed to the adoption ofindustry training packages with the gradualwithdrawal of accreditat ion of trainingprograms which do not underpin trainingpackages.MARCSTA has now extended its scope toaddress these changes and all programs arebeing modif ied to provide the essentialoccupational health and safety ski l ls andknowledge required to work safely in a rangeof mining industry applications.These occupational health and safety skillsunderpin Work Safely, a core unit ofcompetence from the nationally endorsedMetalliferous Mining Training Package. Thisunit provides a basic start ing point forcontinuous training and application ofoccupational health and safety in theworkplace.Candidates who successfully complete thegeneric inductions wil l be entit led to aStatement of Attendance. Later, on productionof satisfactory evidence that they havedemonstrated competence in applying theknowledge and skills in their workplace, theywill be issued with a Statement of Attainmentwhich is recognised within the AustralianQuality Training Framework.Other occupational health and safety programsin place, or under development, will also

underpin units ofcompetence from themetalliferous trainingpackage, and otherpackages whereappropriate.The complete transitionis expected to becomplete by 1 July.Refresher programs- recognition ofcurrent competency(fast track)MARCSTA has long noted the need forrecognit ion of current competency. Theintroduction of an abbreviated refresherprogram was an attempt to address theconcerns about cost and suggestions thatrenewal of competency was a "money makingexercise".The truth is that assessment of competenceprior to attendance at a refresher programindicated that only about 10% of candidateshad retained the required competence.Competence must be regularly assessed ifcredibility is to be maintained. Unless theknowledge and ski l ls acquired are usedcontinually they will degrade. Changes toprocedures, regulations and workplacepractices are occurring continually and newcompetencies need to be acquired.MARCSTA will have in place by 1 July 2002 aFast Track option for renewal of certification.This recognises that there are individuals whocontinually utilise their knowledge and skillsand who keep up to date with changes toprocedures, regulations and current practice, The option will entail a one-hour writtenexamination under provider supervis iondesigned to test current competency.Attendance at the normal refresher programwill be required if an applicant fails to meet therequired standard of competence.A full explanation of the process will be given inthe next edition of the Monitor.

In this issue…Who's who ..............................................................2Editorial ..................................................................2High honour for CEO................................................2ISMSP ....................................................................3Draft report on review of MSIA ................................3Media trial of Alcoa ................................................3Safety intervention seminar ....................................3MARCSTA registered providers................................3Member profile - Cook's Construction ....................4

The mining industry and rep training ......................5MARCSTA members ................................................5Provider profile - IFAP ............................................6Review of MSI Act ..................................................7The AQTF ................................................................7Conferences and courses ........................................7Liberty Mutual survey..............................................8New publications ....................................................8

Pat Gilroy

Message from the CEO

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2002 has started with many safety issues.The US announced an increase in defencespending to improve its emergencyresponse capability. Religion, which partlyarose to help people to come to termswith r isk, often creates r isk throughdifferences of viewpoint. Before Christmas I worked on some issuesfor a mining company which all fell notinto the safety basket but into occupationalhealth, an aspect of mining MARCSTA’s CEO emphasises. In January itwas safety again as I trained a group of contractor employees on thenew company safety management system. Training as one response to risk was highlighted in December in theinquiry into the Army’s adventure training fatalities on Everest. Theirsafety office had had its funding and staff severely pruned beforehand.(Why does the safety function so often suffer in corporate shakeups?)Encouragingly though the Army does routinely use the Kinney andWiruth (US Navy China Lake) risk assessment method for trainingexercises it is planning. Training in WA has come under the microscope with the reviewcompleted by Tony McRae MLA in December. However only threepages in the report dealt with training itself and the coalface as distinctfrom training structure issues. For instance training technologies andinitiatives got little mention. Why is this important? Well, road fatalitiesin WA dropped by 23% in 2001 compared to 2000, but the value ofcomputerised training for new drivers which asked them to respond toa range of hazard situations was questioned by the WA Road AccidentResearch Unit. By contrast, James Reason, the expert on error, believesthat even in the best systems error is inevitable and a necessary aspectof training is that which addresses responding appropriately andrecovering control. The draft reports of the reviews by Commissioner Laing of the OSH andMSI legislation make interesting reading. (See also page 7). It is clearthat the mining industry has achieved a far higher percentage ofworkplaces with safety and health reps even though it started sevenyears later than other industry. It is good to see that one of theinitiatives, joint training of reps and supervisors, in which Pat Gilroy, theChamber, the AWU, the then DME, two other very dedicated trainersand I were involved, has now been accepted by Mr Laing. This jointtraining began at the start of the downward trend in mining LTIFR. The Laing MSI Act draft report also tries to answer the question "Whathappens to safety under economic pressures?" in the section TheIndustry Context. There are moves in both reports to give WorkSafe a greater role in mining safety. The concept of a unifiedstructure appealed to Lord Robens, yet under the present separation of DMPR from WorkSafe the mining LTIFRhas dropped drastically over the nineties and is now below that for eight other WorkSafe categories –construction, manufacturing, cafes, transport, recreation, health, agriculture and retail. All but one of theseachieved reductions in the last half of the nineties, but none as startling as mining. Both reviews moot the idea of compulsory induction training across industry, and MARCSTA got a mention butnot by name in the MSI review in regard to shiftwork lifestyle training.

Geoff Taylor

Who’s who?Chief Executive Officer

Pat Gilroy

ChairpersonTerry Condipodero

JR Engineering

Vice ChairpersonJoe Maglizza

CSR Readymix

Committee of ManagementRoss Graham

Andy McDonaldPat O’SullivanJohn Lemon

Warren Claydon

General & UndergroundManual and Facilitators’Guide Review, Provider

Registration Panel ChairJoe Maglizza

Criteria & Recommendationsfor Registration

Ross Graham

MARCSTA Monitor EditorGeoff Taylor

Editorial

A note from the Chairman: High honour for Pat GilroyMARCSTA CEO Pat Gilroy was made a member inthe general division of the Order of Australia in theNew Year Honours list.

Pat left school at 14, completed political andpsychology degrees 23 years later and made a verysignificant contribution to improving health andsafety in the mining industry through his

involvement in developing policy and legislationduring the twenty years he was with the Chamberof Minerals and Energy of WA. He has been amember of the WorkSafe Commission since 1986.

Pat has continued to make a contribution to thisgoal as the CEO of MARCSTA.

We congratulate Pat on a well-merited award.

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International Society of MineSafety Professionals (Australia) IncSocietyprogressMembershipapplicationshave nowbeen receivedfrom 25 mine

safety and health professionals with asmall but steady stream continuing toarrive. All applications will beprocessed by the end of February andcategories of membership allocated.Sub-Committees have beenestablished to deal with applications,to complete the certification processand to advise on the examinationprocess.The requirements to qualify forprofessional certification will include awritten examination based on mininghealth and safety legislation and aportfolio of documented safety andhealth activities and initiatives tosupport the application for certification.The purpose is to enable theaccreditation panel to make a validassessment of the knowledge andcapacity of each applicant.The process for examination andportfolio assessment is expected to becompleted by 1 July 2002.The website of the ISMSP will be online via the MARCSTA web addresswww.marcsta.com at the end ofMarch.

Review of the Mines Safety andInspection Act 1994The draft report on the Review of theMines Safety and Inspection Act 1994released late in February is the first legislative issue on which the Society will make comment. It can be downloaded fromsafetyline.wa.gov.au.A draft response will be prepared forconsideration and comment bymembers and subsequentlyforwarded on their behalf. Memberswill be expected to respond to thedraft promptly in order to meet thesubmission deadline. A summary ofthe key recommendations of thereview is contained on page 7. Media trial of Alcoa WorldAluminaRecent publicity in the mediaconcerning multiple chemicalsensitivity alleged to have emanatedfrom Alcoa's Wagerup Refineryoperations could be misconstrued bythe reader to indicate a lack ofenvironmental and occupationalhealth standards by that company.ISMSP members know only too well that the high standards ofoccupational health and safety in themining industry in Western Australiatoday are a direct consequence of thecommitment and input by Alcoa overthe past 20 years or so.

Of particular significance is theirdedication to occupational hygiene, adiscipline in which they have excelled.They have been prepared to share thatexcellence with the rest of industry.ISMSP members should take everyopportunity to express theirappreciation in public forums.New Personal DevelopmentWorkshop A further professional developmentworkshop, Evaluating the Effectivenessof Strategies for Preventing WorkInjuries – How to Show WhetherSafety Intervention Really Works will beheld in mid July. It features ProfessorHarry Shannon of McMaster University,Hamilton, Canada. Professor Shannonis co-author of a Guide on this topic,produced in April 2001 on behalf ofthe Center for Disease Control andPrevention, NIOSH, USA. The workshop follows that given by DrVincent Covello last October.Registrations will be strictly limited toensure attendee involvement. Prioritywill be given to members andattendees at the Covello seminar.Attendance will count towardscontinuing professional developmentrequirements. To participate please register with PaulaSinclair at marcsta@eftelradio.com

Jayson Aveling Tony Aveling and AssociatesTony Aveling Tony Aveling and AssociatesRon Baker Total Corrosion ControlReuben Barber Thiess ContractorsPeter Barnard (U)Tom Bateman (S) TRACMINCarl Berglin Berglin Consulting ServicesDanny Bognar Tom Price and SonsClive Brindley JG EngineeringDale Cocker (U) (S) TAFE TasmaniaDavid Collins (S) D&S Safety TrainingGeoff Day Mandurah Safety and Training

ServicesPeter Dowding (U) JR Engineering Services Pty LtdJoe Duyvestyn TRACMINLinda Elezovich (S) Caterpillar InstituteDennis Farlow Century ResourcesHelen Fleming (S) Strudwick HRAshley Gilbert Ausdrill LtdRoss Graham Komatsu Pty LtdRay Hargreaves Tony Aveling and AssociatesRalph Keegan (S) Frontline Safety and Training ServicesJohn Lemon Total Corrosion ControlGuy Le Noir (S) Switched Onto SafetyRobert Lewis Smart Training and ConsultancyDuncan Lilley St. Barbara MinesJoe Maglizza CSR ReadymixJeff Mathews (S) Safety Paradigms (Aust) Pty LtdSharyn McCulloch NOSA Ltd Queensland

Malcolm McFarland (S) IFAPNick McIntyre (U) McIntyre Mining ServicesGreg North Mobile Skills TrainingGraeme Richards Richards Mining ServicesMerryn Richards (S) Richards Mining ServicesDarren Ridley TRACMINJason C Roberts Tony Aveling and AssociatesVictor Roberts (S) Tony Aveling and AssociatesDes Shaw Shaw OS&H DisciplinesBrian Smith (U) OSHTRAMRennie Sterle Kelport Pty LtdPeter Stoneman Kendawn Pty LtdWayne Sullivan (S) IFAPMitchell Talbot Tony Aveling and AssociatesStephen Taylor Stephen G. Taylor ConsultancyPeter Tredgett Baseline/ChubbPeter Tynan (U) Tassmia Safety Training ServicesGraham Wall Mandurah Safety and Training

ServicesDave Watkins Safety Skills TrainingChris Wilson Tony Aveling and Associates

All listed provide general inductionsU denotes underground trainer as well. S denotes shiftwork lifestyle trainer as well.

This list is current at the time of going to press but for furtherinformation contact Anna Verteramo at the Secretariat onPhone 08-9355 1400 or Fax 08-9355 1499.

MARCSTA REGISTERED PROVIDERS

ISMSP ChairmanJim Torlach

Cook's Construction Pty Ltd was established in1940 and incorporated in 1969. The companyhas developed into a national contractor with asuccessful trading position and reputation in themarket place.The organisation is structured to focus on threecore activit ies, contract mining and bulkearthworks, civil and infrastructure construction,and plant hire.The head office of Cook's Construction Pty Ltd is atDandenong in Victoria, with interstate offices inWestern Australia and regional New South Wales.The latter also has overall responsibil i ty forQueensland and has a sub-office at Emerald.Cook's employ approximately 700 staff in areasincluding Occupational Health and Safety, QualityAssurance and Environment, Engineering andProject Management, Training, Procurement, PlantMaintenance and Administration, and Operations. Cooks are actively involved in the gold miningindustry in Western Australia and Queensland.Contracts include mining of gold ore and waste,provision of mining fleets on hire, major cutbacks,construction of tail ings dams, haulage fromsatellite mines, portal construction and otherservices. Clients, past and present, include twentytwo companies in four mainland states.Current and completed works in the coal miningindustry have included large scale overburdenremoval including drill and blast, coal excavationand haulage, water management, dams anddrainage systems, construction of haul roads, boxcuts and a railway coal haulage system.Cook's have been involved with mining of otherminerals such as copper, lead, zinc, silver and ironore, with clients in three mainland states andTasmania.Cook's are also actively involved in the quarryingindustry. Cl ients include Penrith LakesDevelopment Corporation (PLDC), the largestAustralian quarry, Boral and Readymix. DutsonQuarrying - Yarwun Qld, is owned and operatedby Cook's.The above cl ients and many other miningcompanies hire mobile plant and equipment fromCook's when the demand arises, or when capitalallocations for their own plant are difficult toobtain or prove uneconomical.For many years the company has developedvarious policies and procedures for the requiredfunctions that have been necessary to supportfield activities. Some of these have turned intodepartments of their own eg. quality assuranceand safety. This has been as a result of thegrowing importance of those departments as a

business requirement. Safety and training, alongwith environmental management have grownwith the understandable desire to reduceworkplace sickness and injury. Earlier on theearthmoving industry was sceptical about safety,which was seen to be a hindrance to acceptedwell established methods. With the new focus onsafe and environmentally friendly workplaces thereis now a growing acceptance of these functions inthe industry.

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Occupational Health & Safety

Komatsu 785-3 dump truck at the Kailis mine, WA

One of the key elements of the Robens Committeeapproach to improving occupational health andsafety was the empowerment of the workforceand, in particular, the appointment of safety andhealth representatives to represent them in theconsultat ion process considered crucial toperformance improvement.

The mining industry demonstrated a readiness toadopt this principle and its continuingcommitment has been a major factor in theturnaround in safety performance over the pasttwenty years.

Figures recently released by WorkSafe WA for thefive years 1996/97 to 2000/01 indicate thatapproximately one-third of the participantsattending introductory training courses for safetyand health representatives have come from themining industry which employs about five per centof the Western Australian workforce.

There can be little doubt that the contributionmade by safety and health representatives hasbeen a signif icant factor in the continuousimprovement in industry performance over the lasttwo decades. Continuing to provide training forsafety and health representatives will ensure thatthe industry remains at the forefront ofoccupational health and safety in WesternAustralia.

A recent review of the effectiveness of the healthand safety representative and workplace healthand safety committee system in South Australia bya working party of the WorkCover Corporationfound some interesting, if not surprising, featuresof the system in that state.

Features that promote effective consultation andparticipation included:

– sincerity in consultation

– respectful management - employeerelationships

– an understanding of respective responsibilities

– top-downdriven cultureandconsultation

– legislative andregulatory requirements

– internal and external influences on seniormanagement

– appropriately trained management

Features that act as barriers to effectiveconsultation and participation:

– lack of management commitment

– middle managerial focus on productivity,budgets, time frames etc

– lack of employee commitment (eg failing toreport minor incidents, injuries)

– management belief that OHS is a job for OHSpersonnel

– lack of management training

– lack of support for health and safetyrepresentatives

In almost all cases employee attitudes towardshealth and safety representatives were positive.The survey results found that 93% of employeerespondents believed that they had helped toimprove occupational health and safety in theirorganisations.

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FULL MEMBERSAusdrill LtdAustralian Raise DrillingBarminco Mining ContractorsBGC ContractingBrambles LtdCharles Hull ContractingCook’s Construction LtdCSR Readymix

JR Engineering Services Pty LtdKomatsu Pty LtdMacmahon ContractorsRoche MiningSkilled EngineeringThiess ContractorsTotal Corrosion ControlWestrac

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSDriver Training and Education CentreTony Aveling and AssociatesMandurah Safety and TrainingServicesSt. Barbara Mines

This list is current at the time of going to press butfor further information contact the Secretariat on08-9355 1400 or Fax 08-9355 1499

MARCSTA Members

The mining industryand rep training

“employee attitudestowards health

and safetyrepresentatives were positive”

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IFAP (the Industrial Foundationfor Accident Prevention), haslong been one of the largestproviders of occupational safetyand health training andconsulting services to theWestern Australian MiningIndustry. It celebrates 30 yearsof safety training and advice in2002.

From MARCSTA Inductiontraining, offered twice a week, toIFAP's industry recognisedsafety qualification, CertificateIV Safety Practitioner, IFAP'scourses are designed to meet adiverse range of industry needs.IFAP is a major provider oftraining for Safety and HealthRepresentatives with over 8,000reps trained by IFAP. Inaddition to its general trainingprograms, IFAP offers a range ofcourses designed specifically tomeet mining industry needs.Surface Ventilation Officer andTechnician training programshave proven extremely popularand fulfil the industry's needs forspecialist staff.

IFAP also offers courses for managers, supervisors, safety committees and hazardmanagement, as well as specificskill training for Certificates of

Competency (eg: crane,scaffolder, forklift), offshoresea survival and helicopterunderwater escape trainingand emergency response.

IFAP's services extendbeyond its world-classtraining facilities inMurdoch and NorthFremantle. Customised trainingand consulting services arefrequently conducted on clients'sites. IFAP has had extensiveexperience servicing many ofthe minesites in the remote areasof WA.

In recent times IFAP has runOccupational Safety and Healthfor Supervisors courses forHenry Walker Eltin at its sites allover WA, NT, QLD and inNSW. IFAP has also run severaltraining courses for ProjectManagers. The Diploma inSafety for Project Managers wasdeveloped for LeightonContractors and has providedreal benefits to their safetyperformance.

IFAP boasts a solid team ofhighly qualified general andspecialist OSH consultants with many years of industryexperience between them. Twoof IFAP's senior consultants,

Malcolm McFarland and WayneSullivan are registered to deliverMARCSTA Induction training.

IFAP also has a team ofAssociate Consultants on handwith Guy LeNoir a registeredprovider of MARCSTAInductions.

IFAP is Western Australia'sleading occupational safety andhealth training and consultingorganisation. IFAP's purpose iscaptured in its missionstatement: to provide leadershipin the advancement of safety andhealth for the benefit of theWestern Australian workplace.

IFAP is a not-for-profit, non-government, member basedorganisation governed by aBoard of Directors drawn fromleading figures in WA's businessand academic community.

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Key recommendations• Repeal the MSI Act 1994 and incorporate its

occupational safety and health provisions intothe Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984.

• Retain the Mining Operations Division of DMPRas the body responsible for the administrationand enforcement of the expandedOccupational Safety and Health Act 1984 in themining industry (transfer the Mining OperationsDivision to WorkSafe WA).

Should those recommendations not beacceptable:• Disband the Mines Occupational Safety and

Health Advisory Board (delete Part 8 of theMines Safety and Inspection Act) and establish aMining Industry Standing Committee as anadvisory committee under the WorkSafe WACommission with an independent chairperson.

• Give the Mining Industry Standing Committeean ongoing supervisory role in relation to theBoard of Examiners and the Mines SurveyBoard.

• Consider amendments to the current legislationin relation to:– notification of ownership changes– authorisation of subordinate appointments– notification of short term management

appointments– requir ing mine managers to have a

knowledge of the Act– reviewing certification requirements– developing a public enforcement policy for

DMPR– introducing improvement and prohibition

notices for use by safety and healthrepresentatives, and for inspectors.

• Review the health and safety data systemsoperated by DMPR

• Develop a prosecution policy for DMPR• Include coverage of ore transport on non-

gazetted roads under the Mines Safety andInspection Act.

Most, if not all, of the other recommendations areincluded in the Review of the Occupational Safetyand Health Act 1984 which can be expected totake precedence.Support or otherwise of those recommendations islikely to be determined in that jurisdiction and themining industry should provide input to thatdebate if it has any concerns.Decisions reached in the broader occupationalsafety and health tr ipartite forum could beexpected to flow consequentially on to the miningindustry.The Australian Quality TrainingFrameworkFrom 1 July 2002 all existing registered trainingorganisations (MARCSTA is an RTO) must complywith the following standards for RegisteredTraining Organisations under what is now titledthe Australian Quality Training Framework.– systems for quality training and assessment– compliance with federal and state legislation

and regulatory requirements– effective financial management procedures– recognition of qualifications issued by other

RTOs– access and equity and client service– the competence of RTO staff– RTO assessments– learning and assessment strategies– issuing AQF qualifications and statements of

attainment– use of national/state logos– ethical marketing and advertisingMost of MARCSTA's licensed providers are RTOs intheir own right and are moving to ensurecompliance. Those providers which are notcurrently RTOs will be required by MARCSTA tomeet similar standards in order to retain theirannual licences.

Review of the Mines Safetyand Inspection Act 1994

Conferences & CoursesALTA Nickel Cobalt Conference,

Perth May 20-22, 2002. ph 03 9850 3484 fax 03 9850 5446 info@altamet.com.au

CMMI Congress 2002. Codes and Sustainability.Cairns 26-31 May 2002. Fax: 03- 9662 3662 ausimm.com

Global Mining Initiative Conference Toronto, 12-15 May 2002.Mining Minerals and Metals for Sustainable Development. See gmiconference.com.

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A recent Liberty Mutual survey in the USA found that95% of executives report that workplace safety has apositive impact on a company's financial performance.Some further interesting information in the reportconcerns the elements of effective workplace safetyprograms:• 25% of respondents report that employee training

is the most important element of an effective

workplace safety program.• 22% believe that management commitment is the

most important element.• 16% believe that internal communication is the

most important element.• 98% feel that direct employee participation is

necessary for effective workplace safety, 69%believe it is critical.

Liberty Mutual survey -safety and financial linkage

N e w P u b l i c a t i o n sUS – Karmis, M (ed). Mine Health and Safety Management.

Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration..472 pp. Fax: 0011-1-303 973 3845 sme@smenet.org

UK – Health and Safety Executive. Guidance and Information on Escapefrom Mines. HSE Books ph 0011-44-178 788 1165. hse.gov.au

A free electronic version of a chemical safety guidance booklet will beavailable in April on hsedirect.com

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