Risks,

Accidents,

Events,

for HSSE consideration

source : Mining Mayhem

HSE – Health, Safety and Environment

• Mines can be hazardous environments and the possibility of fire, flood,

explosion and collapse has the potential to simultaneously affect a

large number of people.

• Sometimes, things get out of control.

• Best practices include:

– Leadership presence in HSE-related processes demonstrates what is

important: their employees’ safety and health

– Integrate HSE processes with standard work procedures

– A broad communication strategy that includes multiple languages and visual

representations of safety practices to help unify and inform workers

– Illustrate lessons learned, safe work practices and HSE tools, often

Underground

Everything gets worse when underground

Maybe the operator trusted too much the weight capacity?

Fire

This incident happened a couple of years ago. BMA Blackwater had a bad fire in their main

workshop. This is the only photo that I've ever seen of the incident. Sent in by a reader.

Tom Price

Operational mistakes

It's amazing just how many dozer operators forget where they

parked their own car. Those D11's have poor rear visibility at the

best of times, but with the single-tine ripper, there's no way he

could have seen that car.

Geological (bench) failure

Before / After the flood