Mining publications

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Medical bulletins

• MB No.001 High pressure hydraulic oil injection injuries (62400 bytes)
• MB No.002 Mine fuming and post explosive blast gases (84906 bytes)
• MB No.003 Crush injury (76233 bytes)
• MB No.004 Hydrofluoric acid burns (85386 bytes)
• MB No.005 Cyanide poisoning - Revised April 2008 (124283 bytes)

Code of practice

• Mines Survey - Code of Practice (515114 bytes)
• Prevention And Management Of Violence Aggression Bullying - COP (458144 bytes)
• Surface Rock Support For Underground Mines - Code Of Practice (112563 bytes)
• Working Hours - Code Of Practice (149875 bytes)

Fact sheet

• Authorised Mine Surveyor’s Certificate Grades 1 and 2 (36597 bytes)
• Exams Information 2008 Certificates of Competency (41999 bytes)
• First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency (37071 bytes)
• Mutual recognition of occupations (230761 bytes)
• Quarry Manager’s Certificate of Competency (37373 bytes)
• Restricted Quarry Manager’s Certificate of Competency (34588 bytes)
• Underground Supervisor’s Certificate of Competency (34829 bytes)

Guide

• CONTAM system procedures (858518 bytes)
• Guide to Health Surveillance System for Employees (672373 bytes)
• MSH Guide to submitting SHR election notification form (98876 bytes)

Guideline

• Accident and incident reporting (681313 bytes)
• Adjustment of exposure standards for extended workshifts (179312 bytes)
• Alcohol and other drugs at the workplace (485492 bytes)
• Approved procedures for dose assessment (547291 bytes)
• Asbestos Management in Mining (4966636 bytes)
• Biological monitoring (541946 bytes)
• Dealing with bullying at work (623157 bytes)
• Development of an operating manual for tailings storage (172237 bytes)
• Diesel transport storage and refuelling underground (161473 bytes)
• Emergency preparedness for u/ground fires in metalliferous mines (332468 bytes)
• Exploration safety - Audit guideline (902144 bytes)
• Fatigue management for the WA mining industry (408000 bytes)
• Fitness for mine rescue personnel (1091743 bytes)
• Foam fire suppression systems on mine vehicles (250656 bytes)
• General duty of care in Western Australian Mines (635605 bytes)
• Geotechnical considerations in open pit mines (207032 bytes)
• Geotechnical considerations in underground mines (726506 bytes)
• Guides to the Act - Reps, Committees etc (1565692 bytes)
• Isolation and tag-out procedures (224433 bytes)
• Management and prevention of heat stress (264006 bytes)
• Management of asbestos in mining operations (702873 bytes)
• Management of exposure to arsenic in mines (472888 bytes)
• Management of exposure to inorganic mercury in gold plants (372335 bytes)
• Management of hazardous substances on mine sites (322195 bytes)
• Managing_NORM-Cover_and_front_matter (1836201 bytes)
• Noise control in mines (930947 bytes)
• NORM-1_Applying_the_system_of_rad_prot (511282 bytes)
• NORM-2-1_Preparation_of_a_radiation_management_plan-explorat (388946 bytes)
• NORM-2-2_Preparation_of_a_radiation_management_plan-mining (328776 bytes)
• NORM-3-1_Pre-operational_monitoring_requirements (878951 bytes)
• NORM-3-2_Operational_monitoring (318355 bytes)
• NORM-3-3_Air_monitoring_strategies (301978 bytes)
• NORM-3-4_Airborne_radioactivity_sampling (1398936 bytes)
• NORM-3-5_Measurement_of_particle_size (1275046 bytes)
• NORM-4-1_Dust_control_strategies (1490286 bytes)
• NORM-4-2_Management_of_radioactive_waste (326850 bytes)
• NORM-4-3_Transport_of_NORM (528673 bytes)
• NORM-5_Dose_assessment (747445 bytes)
• NORM-6_Reporting_and_notifying (387417 bytes)
• NORM-7_BOSWELL (2334324 bytes)
• Open pit mining through underground workings (542634 bytes)
• Personnel access to heavy mining machinery (128170 bytes)
• Project management plan (240675 bytes)
• Purchase, operation & maintenance of u/ground diesel equipment (552168 bytes)
• Railway vehicle drivers (loco drivers) medical fitness (411456 bytes)
• Refuge chambers in underground metalliferous mines (1641428 bytes)
• Risk-based health surveillance and biological monitoring (906903 bytes)
• Safe design and operating standards for tailings storage (403175 bytes)
• Safety and health risk management (327033 bytes)
• Safety bund walls around abandoned open pit mines (503493 bytes)
• Safety management of underground combustible sulphide dust (284114 bytes)
• Tyre safety, fires and explosions (364100 bytes)
• Underground barring down and scaling (278314 bytes)
• Underground ventilation (metalliferous mines) (203878 bytes)
• Vertical opening safety practice in underground mines (2074937 bytes)
• Working Hours Code of Practice - Risk Management Guidelines (80367 bytes)

Information sheet

• Information sheet for SH Reps - Investigating incidents (250586 bytes)

Magazines

• MineSafe Magazine - June 1998 (910535 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 1998 (949461 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 1998 (1097476 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - October 1999 (387739 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 1999 (454121 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - August 1999 (528232 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 1999 (1415629 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - March 2000 (1711739 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - June 2000 (2800439 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2000 (1764743 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2000 (2728679 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2001 (3819934 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2001 (1918774 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - July 2004 (672815 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2004 (1455469 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - March 2005 - Special issue (665924 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2005 (779307 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - July 2005 (596832 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2005 (1195339 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - July 2006 - Part 1 (943757 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2006 (1237973 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - March 2006 (962321 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2006 (1856068 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2006 - Part 2 (543504 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2006 - Part 2 (1033690 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - July 2006 (2146226 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - July 2006 - Part 2 (1241163 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2006 - Part 1 (733934 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2006 - Part 1 (976713 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2007 - Part 2 (1188996 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2007 (1225028 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2007 - Part 1 (2014229 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - December 2007 (1630260 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2007 - Part 1 (1884917 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2007 - Part 2 (1162902 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - September 2007 (3038593 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2008 - Part 2 (1460750 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2008 - Part 1 (1334608 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - May 2008 (2798516 bytes)
• MineSafe Magazine - August 2008 (6230911 bytes)

Poster

• Asbestos management in mining (451677 bytes)
• MineHealth (1202514 bytes)
• Occupational noise management in mining (1143681 bytes)
• Protect your hearing (1215733 bytes)
• Reporting An Accident Or Incident - Poster (82807 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2000-01 (406631 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2001-02 (746058 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2002-03 (224860 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2003-04 (320879 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2004 -05 (105394 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2005-06 (388886 bytes)
• Safety Performance in WA Mineral Industry 2006-07 (376766 bytes)
• Your safety and health representative is... (77804 bytes)

Annual reports

• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 1997-1998 (436523 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 1998-1999 (370437 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 1999-2000 (723730 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2000-01 (1201313 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2001-02 (652576 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2003-04 (2179773 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2003-04 - Explanatory Notes (2180066 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2004-05 (2572086 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2004-05 - Explanatory Notes (2528427 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2005-06 (1990148 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2005-06 - Explanatory Notes (1990411 bytes)
• Mineral Industry Safety Performance 2006-2007 (365252 bytes)

Significant incident reports

• SIR No.001 Pressurised Gearbox Explosion (5922 bytes)
• SIR No.002 Conveyor Belt - Fatal Accident (6156 bytes)
• SIR No.003 Compressed Air Hose Connection - Fatal Accident (6272 bytes)
• SIR No.004 Welding Equipment Electrocution - Fatal Accident (6500 bytes)
• SIR No.005 Split Ring Tyre Assembly Explosion - Fatal (5888 bytes)
• SIR No.006 Safe Use of Radiation Gauges (6171 bytes)
• SIR No.007 Chemical Handling - Caustic Burn (6532 bytes)
• SIR No.008 Rock Bolting Underground - Fatal Accident (6093 bytes)
• SIR No.009 Gold Room Explosion - Molten Metal Burns (5938 bytes)
• SIR No.010 Cyanide Poisoning (5983 bytes)
• SIR No.011 EMU Mine Disaster (8040 bytes)
• SIR No.012 Slope Failure - Open Pit Mine (5985 bytes)
• SIR No.013 Tramp Metal Fired From Jaw Crusher (6395 bytes)
• SIR No.014 Electric Shock Involving PandH Shovel (6575 bytes)
• SIR No.015 Haul Truck Tyre Explosion (8159 bytes)
• SIR No.016 Substation Transformer Explosion (6871 bytes)
• SIR No.017 Caught By Rock Drill (5964 bytes)
• SIR No.018 High Pressure Water Jetting (7773 bytes)
• SIR No.019 Explosion Of Drill Steel Subject To High Temperature (6612 bytes)
• SIR No.020 Drilling Rig Fire (6147 bytes)
• SIR No.021 Operator Safety - Earthmoving Scrapers (6277 bytes)
• SIR No.022 Winding Rope Detachment (6299 bytes)
• SIR No.023 Underground Fires (7823 bytes)
• SIR No.024 Crane Dogman Survives Shock from 22Kv Transformer (6497 bytes)
• SIR No.025 Buried Electrical Cable - Fatal Accident (6834 bytes)
• SIR No.026 Truck Toppled Over Edge of Stockpile (5698 bytes)
• SIR No.027 Shrink Stope - Fatal Accident (5832 bytes)
• SIR No.028 Mud Rush - Fatal Accident (6728 bytes)
• SIR No.029 Stope Draw-point (Mill Hole) - Fatal Accident (6732 bytes)
• SIR No.030 Elevating Platform Operation - Serious Injury (6203 bytes)
• SIR No.031 Hot Oil Boiler - Potential Explosion (6365 bytes)
• SIR No.032 Storage Tank Explosion (5942 bytes)
• SIR No.033 Passenger Lift - A Serious Accident (6078 bytes)
• SIR No.034 Underground Vehicle Fire (6042 bytes)
• SIR No.035 Safe Welding Practice (5766 bytes)
• SIR No.036 Injury Sustained Whilst Working on Drilling Mast (6221 bytes)
• SIR No.037 Lead-Acid Battery Explodes (6531 bytes)
• SIR No.038 Uncontrolled Movement of Mobile Unit (5889 bytes)
• SIR No.039 Uncontrolled Movement of Cherry Pickers (6725 bytes)
• SIR No.040 Near-miss Underground Blasting Incident (10262 bytes)
• SIR No.041 Haul Truck Rear Wheel Falls Off (6101 bytes)
• SIR No.042 Remotely Operated Machinery - Fatal Accident (6113 bytes)
• SIR No.043 Remote Control Loader Fire In An Open Stope (7093 bytes)
• SIR No.044 Rockfall - Fatal Accident (7333 bytes)
• SIR No.045 Fatal Agricultural Traffic Accident In Quarry (7104 bytes)
• SIR No.046 Contact With Overhead Powerline - Fatal Accident (6266 bytes)
• SIR No.047 Injuries Sustained While Working On Drilling Mast (9581 bytes)
• SIR No.048 EWP Users Tipped From Basket (9983 bytes)
• SIR No.049 Hazard Alert - Auger Mixers (11091 bytes)
• SIR No.050 Trailing Cable Coupler - Electrical Accident (6001 bytes)
• SIR No.051 Failure Of Mast Supports On Drill Rigs (6218 bytes)
• SIR No.052 Rope Power Shovel Maintenence - Fatal Accident (6026 bytes)
• SIR No.053 Elevated Work Platform - Falling (6396 bytes)
• SIR No.054 Structural Collapse Of An Iron Ore Stacker (6823 bytes)
• SIR No.055 Conveyor Belt - Fatal Accident (5948 bytes)
• SIR No.056 Uncontrolled Discharge of Stored Energy Source-Fatal (6666 bytes)
• SIR No.057 Remotely Operated Mobile Machine - Fatal Accident (6127 bytes)
• SIR No.058 Removal Of A Rise Ladder - Fatal Accident (6419 bytes)
• SIR No.059 Offloading Unpalleted Articles (9133 bytes)
• SIR No.060 Uncontrolled Movement of Elevated Work Platform (5996 bytes)
• SIR No.061 Caught In A Roating Drill Rod - Fatal Accident (6022 bytes)
• SIR No.062 Anchorage of Underground Scraper Hoists (6264 bytes)
• SIR No.063 Remotely Operated Underground LHD - Near Miss (6672 bytes)
• SIR No.064 Fire On Front End Loader (6461 bytes)
• SIR No.065 Children Exposed to Hazards at Unattended Mine (6775 bytes)
• SIR No.066 Structural Failure of Bucketwheel Reclaimer - Fatal (6087 bytes)
• SIR No.067 High Voltage Circuit Switched to Earth (6092 bytes)
• SIR No.068 Electrical Test Instrument - Serious Accident (5952 bytes)
• SIR No.069 Anfo Mixing Vehicle Fire (8057 bytes)
• SIR No.070 Thermal Lancing of Crusher Concaves- Serious Accident (6111 bytes)
• SIR No.071 Sudden Collapse of Ground - Sinkhole Formation (7320 bytes)
• SIR No.072 Split Wheel Rim - Fatal Accident (7543 bytes)
• SIR No.073 Conveyor Belt Failure (6017 bytes)
• SIR No.074 Driver Killed In Tractor Rollover (6607 bytes)
• SIR No.075 Explosion in Underground Magazine (6978 bytes)
• SIR No.076 Stormwater Inflow into Decline Mine (6658 bytes)
• SIR No.077 Hazardous Drill Hole Intersection (6457 bytes)
• SIR No.078 Blasting Accidents (17079 bytes)
• SIR No.079 Exploration Drill Hole Intersection (15240 bytes)
• SIR No.080 Overheating Radiator - Burn Injury (16037 bytes)
• SIR No.081 Serious Burns Involving Disposable Overalls (15570 bytes)
• SIR No.082 Crushed in Articulation point of LHD (14387 bytes)
• SIR No.083 Explosion of Split-ring Tyre Assemblies (16362 bytes)
• SIR No.084 Loss of Control of Water Cart - fatal accident (15002 bytes)
• SIR No.085 Explosion of Flammable Gas in Underground Stope Void (18369 bytes)
• SIR No.086 Structural Failures Of Large Span Gantry Crane (16429 bytes)
• SIR No.087 Drill Rod Handling - Serious Incident (16123 bytes)
• SIR No.088 Remotely Operated LHD - Dangerous Occurences (15929 bytes)
• SIR No.089 Remotely Operated LHD Machine - Fatal Accident (14680 bytes)
• SIR No.090 Remotely Operated Machinery - Rockfall - Fatal (14540 bytes)
• SIR No.091 Fall of Material - Fatal Accident (13944 bytes)
• SIR No.092 RC Drill Rig 3 Sample Hose Connection - Fatal (14849 bytes)
• SIR No.093 Ventilation Doors - Fatal Accident (14149 bytes)
• SIR No.094 Fall From Height In Gig Rise - Fatal Accident (70722 bytes)
• SIR No.095 Death Of Exploration Worker (17227 bytes)
• SIR No.096 Remotely Operated LHD - Brake Failure (14311 bytes)
• SIR No.097 Radio-operated Crane - Uncontrolled Movement (14687 bytes)
• SIR No.098 Jumbo Drilling Rig Fire - Underground Fire (14629 bytes)
• SIR No.099 Remotely Operated LHD - Runaway (15069 bytes)
• SIR No.100 Pressure Vessel Entry - Scalding Injury (15691 bytes)
• SIR No.101 Lime Tanker Pressure Piping Connection Failure (14360 bytes)
• SIR No.102 Fatal Methane Gas Explosion - South Africa (17392 bytes)
• SIR No.103 Hazards Associated With Dehydration (17532 bytes)
• SIR No.104 Dislodgement Of A Crane Load Above A Person (15165 bytes)
• SIR No.105 Failure Of A Galvanised Grade 80 Chain Sling (16805 bytes)
• SIR No.106 Operator Trapped By Suction Hose (14497 bytes)
• SIR No.107 Multiple Fuming And Gas Explosion (21206 bytes)
• SIR No.108 Detonation Of Misfire In Pit Floor (19989 bytes)
• SIR No.109 Fitting Of Tile Boxes On Drilling Rigs (32574 bytes)
• SIR No.110 Vehicle Over Stope Edge (14401 bytes)
• SIR No.111 Mine Rescue Team Members Collapse During Exercise (75351 bytes)
• SIR No.112 Loading Service Vehicle Onto Trailer (78032 bytes)
• SIR No.113 Drillers Offsider Struck By Stillson Type Wrench (39967 bytes)
• SIR No.114 Wrong Gas Used During Gas Purge Resulted In Burns (39151 bytes)
• SIR No.115 Tyre Rolling Down A Ramp (39096 bytes)
• SIR No.116 Operator Safety - Earthmoving Scrapers (36745 bytes)
• SIR No.117 Underground Electrical Equipment - Fatal Accident (40786 bytes)
• SIR No.118 Grader Incident - Loss Of Control (38096 bytes)
• SIR No.119 Drillers Offsider Blasted With Dust Under Pressure (37240 bytes)
• SIR No.120 Contamination Of High Pressure Compressed Air - Plant (107968 bytes)
• SIR No.121 Haul Road Stability In Open-cut Operations (40595 bytes)
• SIR No.122 Dumptruck Tyre Failure (33401 bytes)
• SIR No.123 RTA At Intersection Of Mine Road And Bush Track (24607 bytes)
• SIR No.124 Tyre Inflation - Fatal Accident (36797 bytes)
• SIR No.125 Transport Of Explosives Underground-Vehicle Incident (45843 bytes)
• SIR No.126 Accidental Initiation Of Explosives During Blasting (39565 bytes)
• SIR No.127 Operator Tipped Out Of Elevated Work Platform (46596 bytes)
• SIR No.128 Steering Failures On Haul Trucks (39867 bytes)
• SIR No.130 Employee Sprayed With Rocks When A Truck Tyre Failed (52976 bytes)
• SIR No.131 Drill Rig Fire - Self-rescuer Failed (65032 bytes)
• SIR No.133 Use Of Torque Multiplier — Fatal Accident (66088 bytes)
• SIR No.134 Detonator found inside ANFO loader (65335 bytes)
• SIR No.135 Aluminium Drill Rod Failure (102150 bytes)
• SIR No.136 Caught Between Headboards Of Two Trucks - Fatal (277797 bytes)
• SIR No.137 Emergency response members struck by falling cylinder (61550 bytes)
• SIR No.138 Paste Fill Wall Failure (73144 bytes)
• SIR No.139 Loss Of Control Of Service Vehicles (65845 bytes)
• SIR No.140 Service Truck Tyre Failure (64564 bytes)
• SIR No.141 Rockfall Fatality (53389 bytes)
• SIR No.142 Explosion of Flammable Containers At Hot Demo Site (67283 bytes)
• SIR No.143 Use Of Dozers For Tree Clearing Operations (61258 bytes)
• SIR No.144 Roll-over Of Front-end Loader (61486 bytes)
• SIR No.145 Driller’s Offsider Struck By Dust Deflector Box (67341 bytes)
• SIR No.146 Hazard Posed By Cyclone Draw in RC Drilling (117767 bytes)
• SIR No.149 Loader Falling Into An Open Slope (62857 bytes)
• SIR No. 150 Failure of escape ladderway in underground rise (66936 bytes)

Template

• Cyanide usage - Audit template (32833 bytes)
• Development of high headings underground audit template (63485 bytes)
• Electrical safety management systems - Audit template (38363 bytes)
• Emergency plan - Audit template (82249 bytes)
• Explosives storage surface part 1 - Audit template (27746 bytes)
• Explosives storage surface part 2 - Audit template (29044 bytes)
• Explosives usage surface - Audit template (30689 bytes)
• Explosives usage underground - Audit template (34525 bytes)
• Fixed plant - Audit template (58609 bytes)
• Fixed plant management - Audit template (28478 bytes)
• Geotechnical considerations - Audit template (40873 bytes)
• Gold rooms - Audit template (70496 bytes)
• Isolation and tagout - Audit template (31620 bytes)
• Management systems - Audit template (47665 bytes)
• MS Notification of outcome of health assessment – pro forma (90624 bytes)
• Noise - Audit template (985600 bytes)
• Quarry systems - Audit template (35420 bytes)
• Surface dust management - Audit template (36657 bytes)
• Surface trackless mobile plant - Audit template (30192 bytes)
• Tailings dam - Audit template (31208 bytes)
• Tipping on stockpiles - Audit template (25210 bytes)
• Underground fire prevention - Audit template (73716 bytes)
• Underground ventilation management - Audit template (95350 bytes)
• Workshops - Audit template (32743 bytes)