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Rio Tinto Safety Standards: B. Recording and Reporting: B1. Injury and Incident Recording and Reporting
This standard sets out the recording and reporting requirements relating to injuries that apply to all Rio Tinto sites. Section 2 defines a number of statistics, including what constitutes a Lost Time Injury (LTI) and a Medical Treatment Case (MTC),... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standards: B1. Particulate and Gas/Vapour Exposures
This standard applies to dust, fibres, mist and fume (ie. particulates), and gas and vapour exposures in the workplace, with emphasis on inhalation as the prime route of exposure. It covers particulate and gas/vapour hazard evaluation, control programme design and... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B2. Hearing Conservation
This standard applies only to noise exposures in the workplace. It covers noise hazard evaluation, control programme design and control programme evaluation (audiometric surveillance), to ensure that employees and contractors will not suffer adverse health effects from noise generated by... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B3. Manual Handling and Vibration
This standard focuses on musculo-skeletal damage that can result from manual handling and from vibration. This standard covers musculo-skeletal hazard evaluation, control programme design and control programme evaluation, to ensure that employees and contractors will not suffer adverse health effects... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B4. Hazardous Substances
This standard applies to both dangerous goods and hazardous substances, be they process or non-process materials. It covers hazard evaluation, control programme design and control programme evaluation, to ensure that employees, contractors and third parties will not suffer adverse health... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B5. Radiation
This standard is applicable to workplace radiation issues associated with process monitoring, products or waste streams, and includes both ionising and non-ionising radiation. It covers radiation hazard evaluation, programme design, exposure controls and employee information, to ensure that employees, contractors... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B6. Thermal Stress
This standard addresses both workplace heat stress and cold stress. It covers high temperature conditions generated by the industrial process or the mining environment, temperatures exacerbated by hot weater, and extreme cold weather conditions, that can pose a risk to... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B7. Fitness for Work
This standard applies where a risk assessment has identified that fatigue or other causes of impaired fitness for work could produce a potential for serious injury or death, significant equipment / plant damage, or significant environmental impact. It covers programme... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B8. Legionnaires Disease
This standard applies to Legionnaires disease in the workplace. It covers Legionella hazard evaluation, control programme design and control programme evaluation, to ensure that employees, contractors and third parties will not suffer adverse health effects. This standard is applicable to... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B9. Travel and Remote Site Health
This standard covers the general travel health issues associated with temporary site visits, health issues associated with working in remote areas, and altitude sickness. It covers travel health programme design and management, to ensure that employees, contractors and third parties... Read more
Rio Tinto Occupational Health Standards: B. Performance Standads: B10. Occupational Exposure Limits
To protect all who work on Rio Tinto sites from occupational illness, workplace hazardous exposures must be controlled to below occupational exposure limit (OEL) and/or biological test limit values. The lists of substances (or agents) were derived from an assessment... Read more
Powered Haulage - PA - Limestone (C&B)
What On September 13, 2005, a 64-year old truck driver, with 25 years mining experience, was fatally injured at a crushed stone operation. The victim, who was not wearing his seatbelt, was dumping material over a 20-foot high stockpile when the... Read more
Fall/Slide Material - CO - Stone (C&B)
What On August 27, 2005, a 26-year old front-end loader operator, with four years mining experience, was fatally injured at a crushed stone operation. The victim was digging material with a front-end loader near the toe of a bank when rocks... Read more
Powered Haulage - MO - Limestone (C&B)
What On September 28, 2005, a 39-year-old repairman, with one year and 34 weeks mining experience, was fatally injured at an underground stone mine. The victim, operating an over the road truck that had been converted to a water truck, lost... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Dimension Limestone) Fatal Fall of Material Accident; Maple Hill Quarry B. G. Hoadley Quarries, Inc. Bloomington, Monroe
What A 47-year-old loader operator with 17 years mining experience was fatally injured at a dimension stone operation. The victim had used a wheel loader to move two large limestone blocks from the waste rock dump. He placed the rear block... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Dimension Limestone) Fatal Fall of Material Accident; Maple Hill Quarry B. G. Hoadley Quarries, Inc. Bloomington, Monroe
What A 47-year-old loader operator with 17 years mining experience was fatally injured at a dimension stone operation. The victim had used a wheel loader to move two large limestone blocks from the waste rock dump. He placed the rear block... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Sand and Gravel) Fatal Exploding Vessels Under Pressure Accident DOD: September 9, 2000 Rockland Materials Pit 1GTI
What A 23-year-old front-end loader operator with 19 weeks mining experience was fatally injured at a sand and gravel operation. The loader bucket struck and ruptured a buried 16-inch natural gas line, causing a gas explosion. Recommendations Each work place should be thoroughly... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Sand and Gravel) Fatal Exploding Vessels Under Pressure Accident DOD: September 9, 2000 Rockland Materials Pit 1GTI
What A 23-year-old front-end loader operator with 19 weeks mining experience was fatally injured at a sand and gravel operation. The loader bucket struck and ruptured a buried 16-inch natural gas line, causing a gas explosion. Why The accident occurred because management had... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Dimension Stone) Fatal Powered Haulage Accident Paul B. Meeker (B987) Laceyville, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania at Ellis Farm
What A 58-year old mechanic (contractor employee) with 3 days mining experience was fatally injured at a dimension stone operation. The victim was preparing to perform maintenance on the front wheel of a skid-steer loader. He had extended the boom to... Read more
Surface Nonmetal Mine (Dimension Stone) Fatal Powered Haulage Accident Paul B. Meeker (B987) Laceyville, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania at Ellis Farm
What A 58-year old mechanic (contractor employee) with 3 days mining experience was fatally injured at a dimension stone operation. The victim was preparing to perform maintenance on the front wheel of a skid-steer loader. He had extended the boom to... Read more
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