Transcript 2005 Mines Safety Roadshow

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Toolbox presentation:
Road safety on mine sites – part 1
Road safety issues on WA mine sites
October 2007
Road safety on mine sites toolbox series
1. Road safety issues on WA mine sites
2. Traffic safety at mining operations
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Number of incidents reported 1994-2006
(total incidents reported = 18,497)
Breakage of rope, etc
Railway incidents
Presence of Gas
Gas and Dust Ignition
Explosives incidents
Light Vehicle incidents
Unconsciousness / Fuming
Crane incidents
Drill / Power Shovel incidents
Rockfall
Wall Failure
Fixed Plant incidents
Other incidents
Electrical incidents
Truck / Mobile Equipment incidents
Outbreak of Fire
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Number of Incidents
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Injuries reported to Resources Safety
Lost time injury (LTI) A work injury that results in an absence
from work of at least one full day or shift any time after the
day or shift on which the injury occurred
Disabling injury A work injury, not a lost time injury, that results
in the injured person being unable to fully perform his or her
ordinary occupation (regular job) any time after the day or
shift on which the injury occurred, and where either
alternative or light duties are performed
Reportable injuries are disabling injuries plus lost time injuries
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Lost time injuries involving vehicles
Accident type
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Struck by moving
vehicle or mobile plant
1
2
1
Motor vehicle collision
10
5
5
Motor vehicle roll-over
5
7
14
16
14
20
Proportion of total lost
time injuries
4.0%
3.2%
4.3%
Total lost time injuries
401
435
468
Total
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Reportable injuries involving vehicles
Accident type
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
Struck by moving
vehicle or mobile plant
1
2
3
Motor vehicle collision
11
11
11
Motor vehicle roll-over
9
10
14
21
23
28
2.3%
2.2%
2.9%
897
1036
971
Total
Proportion of total
reportable injuries
Total reportable injuries
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Fatal accident 2004-05
A driver of a road train engaged in transporting iron ore was
fatally injured in a collision with another road train. It had
rained heavily during the day and road-train operations had
been suspended. The road train was empty, and collided
with the first loaded vehicle to return from the outlying mine
site after the resumption of haulage operations.
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Fatal accident 2005-06
A blast hole drill operator received fatal injuries at night when
the tray-back truck he was driving collided with the back of a
truck parked near an open pit gold mine workshop. Two drill
rods protruding from the tray of the parked truck speared
through the operator’s windscreen and struck him, causing
massive injuries. The operator was treated at a hospital but
succumbed to his injuries two days later.
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Factors affecting road safety outcomes
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Road design and traffic
management
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Road user behaviour
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Vehicle standards and
maintenance
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Heavy vehicle dynamics
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Visibility
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Road conditions
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Regulatory requirements — surface mining
Regulation 13.7 Bench widths and open pit roads
For roads and vehicle operating areas, mine manager must:
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ensure that design and construction (e.g. width, gradient, camber and
radius of bend curvature), and maintenance:
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enable safe operation of all mobile equipment authorised to travel on
those roads or areas
take into account the size, speed, loads and operating characteristics of
equipment, and pit conditions including weather
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arrange signage or installation of other devices as necessary to control
speed and movement of vehicles using roads in quarry or open pit
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ensure adequacy of windrows or bunds on outer edge of roadways in
open pit and any roadway on surface adjacent to a bank or steep slope
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Regulatory requirements —
underground mining
Regulations 10.37 and 10.40(1) Trackless units
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Maintenance Manager and each employer at underground
mine must ensure that trackless units designed, constructed
and equipped to conform with Australian Design Rules are
maintained to continue conformance
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Traffic control If two or more trackless units are required to
operated in a haulage way, mine manager must ensure
implementation of appropriate traffic control system to
minimise risk of collision
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Key behavioural issues in road crashes
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Speed
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Alcohol and other drugs
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Fatigue
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Restraint use
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Risk-taking behaviour
Examples follow from
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incident database
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Speed
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The second trailer of a road train overturned on a haul road
corner. The driver had realised that the road train’s speed was
excessive approaching the corner but was unable to correct it and
lost control
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A 50 tonne dump truck, hauling heap leach material to sheet
roads, rolled onto its side after turning a corner at excessive
speed and running off the road. No injuries were sustained
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Alcohol and other drug use
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The boom of a Franna crane contacted a support pillar while the
crane was being moved into the mobile workshop. The operator
was tested for alcohol and other drugs, returning a “not negative”
result. This was later confirmed as “positive”. The equipment and
workshop were not damaged.
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Driver fatigue
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Truck driver fell asleep while driving loaded truck towards waste
dump. Truck veered off road and lodged in windrow
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Dump truck driver received multiple bruising and fractured thumb
when truck went up embankment and then back onto haul road
after driver fell asleep. Driver was not wearing seat belt
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Haul truck collided with windrow when driver fell asleep while
driving truck out of pit
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Restraint used
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Truck driver reversed dump truck up windrow on an ore dump.
Bank gave way and truck flipped over on its tray. Fortunately,
driver was wearing seat belt
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Elevating scraper rolled on its side while being driven to the pit
from feed preparation ore hopper. Operator was wearing a seat
belt and was not injured
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Restraint not used
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Driller fell out of moving vehicle injuring his head and shoulder
when attempting to close cab door, which had opened as vehicle
was going around a corner. As he grabbed door it fell off its
hinges, pulling him out of cab. He was not wearing a seat belt
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A 4WD wagon was travelling at speed when the driver lost control
and left the roadway. The road was wet and slippery, and the
vehicle slid for more than 50 metres before striking a roadside
bund. The vehicle rolled, throwing the driver out
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Some strategies to address issues
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Use approaches adopted for general
community to address speed, drug-related
and risk-taking behaviours that affect driving
and decision-making ability
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Recognise and appropriately manage fatigue
Working Hours Code of Practice
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Educate and train workforce to improve
understanding of issues, and increase
capacity and willingness to protect fitness for
work
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Identify and assess hazards associated with
vehicle and pedestrian movements. Consider
engineering solutions
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Big and small don’t mix
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“Dead truck” syndrome
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