Issue Date:  -  Tuesday, 19 December 2006

Working hours code of practice impacts on mining

The recently released code of practice on working hours and its impact on the WA mining industry is just one of the features in the December edition of MineSafe magazine.
 
Working hours are now considered to be an occupational health and safety issue and companies will need to adopt a risk control model for use by workplaces or industry.

This model will also require them to identify hazards and their factors, and levels of risk and risk assessment and control.

The latest edition of MineSafe magazine also looks at the importance of work life balance for attracting and retaining employees and maintaining productive workplaces in the face of looming labour and skill shortages.

The free quarterly magazine features a series of articles addressing road safety on mine sites including driver fatigue and new technologies which are being developed to improve operator safety.
 
State Mining Engineer Martin Knee attempts to demystify ‘safety culture’ and strips away some of the pretensions that have crept into the discussion of safety in all industries.

There is also a five-page feature and pictorial spread on the 2006 CME Underground Mine Emergency Response Competition, the largest competition of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

A special wrap-up of the Mines Safety Roadshow, which attracted more than 450 registrants from the Goldfields to the Pilbara, also features.

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