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Railway Vehicle Drivers (Loco Drivers) Medical Fitness : Guideline
This document describes medical fitness requirements to take charge of and drive on a mine railway. It covers legislative requirements and medical criteria to determine whether rail crew are fit to perform specific tasks. It identifies potential problems such as... Read more
Fitness for Mine Rescue Personnel
This Department of Industry and Resources guideline offers a practical approach for mine managers and supervisors to assist in ensuring that mine rescue personnel are appropriately medically and physically fit, so reducing the risk of injury, or sudden incapacity during... Read more
Electric shock from a light fitting
What A mineworker received an electric shock when his forearm made contact with a flameproof Burn Brite fluorescent light fitting (Certificate No AUS EX 424X) on a continuous miner in the hazardous zone of a coal mine. The victim was transported... Read more
Fitness for Mine Rescue Personnel
A guideline to the recommended medical and physical fitness levels of mine rescue personnel. Advice on fitness requirements includes sample health questionnaires for rescue staff, and recommended testing for aerobic fitness, and muscular strength and endurance. ... 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
WMC Environment, Health & Safety Management System (EHS MS) Fitness for Work Standard
The purpose of the Fitness for Work Standard is to provide for the processes of education, awareness, assistance, counselling and, if required, disciplinary procedures to ensure, as far as practical, that all individuals are fit for work. Determination of an... Read more
Pressurized Fittings
A coal miner in Kentucky was injured when he attempted to bleed the pressure from a conveyor grease jack. The grease jack had the OEM relief type fitting broken and a standard grease fitting had been substituted ... Read more
GUIDELINE FOR THE COMPILATION OF A MANDATORY CODE OF PRACTICE ON MINIMUM STANDARDS OF FITNESS TO PERFORM WORK AT A
CATEGORIES OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF FITNESS TO WORK; Initial Examination; Infectious disease; Gastro-Intestinal Infectious Diseases; Active, Infectious Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus; Obesity; Diseases of the Blood and Blood Forming Organs; Mental Disorders; Acute or... Read more
Guidance on Driver Fitness for Duty
This document gives guidance to employers on how to ensure that drivers are fit for duty. ... Read more
Taking the back work out of fitting and removing a shuttle car tyre
Problem Heavy manual handling in relatively confined work area. Solution Develop a purpose built install and removal tool. Benefits 90% of heavy lifting removed from the task; the tool aligns and holds tyre in the correct location allowing easy fitting; the weight of the tyre... Read more
Fitness for work ; a scientific approach to matching employees to job requirements
Physical fitness is a prerequisite for jobs in many industries, but in the mining sector it is not only necessary in terms of productivity, but also fundamental to the maintenance of good safety and health. With this in mind, AngloGold... Read more
Failure Of Plastic Compressed Air Pipe Fittings
What A shotcreter at an underground gold mine connected an air hose to a manifold at the end of a polyethylene compressed air service line. He turned the air on and had walked about 15 m away when the manifold blew... Read more
Assessing Fitness to Drive for Commercial and Private Vehicle Drivers
Assessing Fitness to Drive for Commercial and Private Vehicle Drivers; Guidelines and Standards for Health Professionals in Australia ... Read more
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Goonyella Riverside Mine road, fatigue, auditing project to prevent vehicle incidents by road redesign, auditing,
Problem Goonyella Riverside Mine is a very large open cut 24 hour coal mine with approximately 500km of road way consisting of numerous intersections, junctions and varied environmental conditions. There are approximately 150 mine site light vehicles, 100 pieces of heavy... Read more
Understanding ergonomics at work Reduce accidents and ill health and increase productivity by fitting the task to the worker
The term ergonomics sometimes referred to as human factors. Not everyone really understands what ergonomics is, what it does, or how it affects people. This leaflet will help to answer these questions and to explain how understanding ergonomics can improve... Read more
Foam Suppression Systems on Mine Vehicles
This guideline is a minimum standard that applies to vehicles registered for underground use in Western Australian mines. It is also suitable for application to surface mining equipment. The Mines Safety and Inspection Regulation 10.59 (1) and (2) requires operators... Read more
MDG 39 Handbook for Approval Assessment of Transport Braking Systems on Free-Steered Vehicles in Underground Coal Mines
This handbook outlines requirements for design, installation, testing and maintenance of braking systems fitted to free-steered vehicles in underground coal mines. It aims to minimise risk of injury to all mine workers by providing an assessment document to assist persons... Read more
MDG 25 Guideline for Safe Cutting and Welding at Mines
This guideline aims to minimise risks to health and safety of workers where cutting and welding activities are being carried out in a mine or product processing plant. Management system for safe cutting and welding at mines are covered;... Read more
Dozer Fall Protection Frame
Problem Maintenance personnel (Mine or Contractors) are required to access and work upon the Dozer bonnet in order to repair/replace items that include lights, air conditioners and blade lift cylinders. This access exposes such personnel to a potential fall from heights... Read more
DEPARTMENT: MINERALS AND ENERGY Minerals and Energy for Development and Prosperity MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY INSPECTORATE guideline for the compilation
Safe use of TMMs, equipment and tools; Brakes; Protection of driver/operator or other persons; Inadvertent movement of the TMM; Safe boarding/alighting and/or access to/exit from TMMs; Design and operation of tow-bars and coupling devices; Lights fitted to TMMs; Physical constraints... Read more
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