Topic 8 – Team Responsibility-Critical Controls:

Bus Incident

  • Training and competency assessment
  • Dover assessment
  • Schedule vehicle maintenance and compliance
  • Pre-shift inspections
  • Brake testing on brake test ramp must be conducted
  • Vehicle tracking GPS and driver analytics
  • Auditing compliance with regard to speeding and other driver behaviour
  • Bus routing compliance
  • Training driver of competency to prevent freewheeling situations
  • Alcohol testing at all access points to the mine

 

Tailings dam failure

  • Report any non-conformances immediately
  • Report any hazards and risks immediately
  • Full compliance to legal and company procedures
  • Never walk or climb on top tailings dam
  • Never enter accumulations of water of unknown depth
  • Conduct regular inspections and audits

 

Inrush – water, mud & other liquids

  • Full compliance to legal requirements
  • Full compliance to management guidelines
  • Keep ran off channels clean and unobstructed
  • Never leave or permit water to run uncontrollably
  • Reliable pump and pipe maintenance
  • Never permit water to enter shafts, orepasses or areas where the consequence is a risk
  • Maintain reservoirs, dams and equipment’s

Hazardous Chemicals

  • Full compliance to legal requirements
  • Full compliance to management guidelines
  • Keep bund walls in good condition
  • Never leave or permit hazardous chemical spillage
  • Reliable storage and control
  • Never permit water to enter storage areas where the consequence is a risk
  • Maintain security and controls
  • Continuous auditing and evaluation
  • Immediate reporting and remedial action
  • Effective training and competence assessment
  • Risk assessment documentation
  • Bow tie analysis
  • Critical control
  • Responsibilities and accountabilities
  • Performance standards and systems

Confined Space Entry

  • Full compliance to legal requirements
  • Full compliance to management guidelines
  • Never permit entry without lock work permit
  • Immediate reporting and remedial action
  • Effective training and competence assessment
  • Risk assessment documentation

 

Working at Heights

  • Full compliance to legal requirements
  • Full compliance to management guidelines
  • Follow required procedures
  • Immediate reporting and remedial action
  • Effective training and competence assessment
  • Risk assessment documentation
  • Monitoring and review process
  • Risk register
  • Effective training facilitation and assessment
  • Consistent risk assessment (SLAM and JSA)
  • Planned Task Observation
  • Chemical spillage
  • Management system audits
  • Behavioural Interaction (VFL)
  • Effective communication(Pre-shift meetings, HPRI, lesson learned)
  • Incident/Accident reporting and investigation
  • Coordination through Risk Manager tracking programme.
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