Over the past two days (19 – 20 Sep), 28 individuals representing 16 entities attended a two-day tyre and rim workshop in Brisbane. The two-day workshop enabled EMESRT to capitalise on industry engagement and make progress in addressing known fatality exposures from OTR tyre handling operations. Workshop focus: Examine the Control Framework as it relates…
Tyre handler industry resources Following on from the recent release of the tyre handler scenario-based storyboard animations, EMESRT makes available further tyre handler resources to industry, and they are: Tyre handling operations: direct and indirect interactions Problem-based design statement: tyre handler operator statement Tyre handling equipment and attachment option matrix Danger poster: tyre handling fatalities,…
Serious incidents involving “Live Work” have become more prevalent in the industry as the technical complexity of designs has changed the way we conduct many traditional tasks. This has led to calls for the industry to eliminate the need for conducting “Live Work” through designers providing ways to conduct tasks with significant exposure to people…
Incidents involve stored energy release during rapid deflations or catastrophic disassembly of wheel assemblies, tyre fires or explosions from pyrolysis, vehicle interactions, or crush injuries when moving tyres and wheels or working near the mobile equipment. EMESRT launched its tyre and rim industry initiative in 2018. EMESRT invited experienced mining industry personnel to be members of a Tyre and Rim Technical Working Group…
Tony Egan, EMESRT Advisory Group member representing Glencore, presented at the Queensland Mining Safety and Health Advisory Committee vehicle interaction safety forum on Wednesday 12 July 2023. The forum provided an opportunity for participants to openly collaborate and share learnings for developing, implementing and maintaining effective controls associated with vehicle interactions. The event, opened by…
The inaugural leading sites forum webinar took place on 20 June 2023 with 22 participants contributing to discussions. The forum was formed following the recent Leading Sites four-day workshop attended by 34 participants representing Alcoa, AngloAmerican, Antofagasta, BHP, Freeport, Glencore, Goldfields, Rio Tinto, and Vale. The workshop included member representatives from both corporate and site…
The EMESRT Performance Requirement 4: Mobile Equipment Fire Management, published in December 2021, has been translated into four languages: French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The objective of Performance Requirement 4 (PR-4) is to provide structured and comprehensive information that can be applied by designers and original equipment manufacturers, mining companies, mobile equipment users, and suppliers…
The EMESRT 2022 Activity Report has been published. The Activity Report provides a summary of EMESRT activities including industry level project progress, engagement with industry and how EMESRT operates. It also highlights a number of milestones achieved in collaboration with industry during 2022. The EMESRT Advisory Group hope that this 2022 Activity Report is useful…
On 22 February, EMESRT presented to an audience of 300 who attended the industry-wide collision avoidance forum hosted by the Minerals Council of NSW and the New South Wales Resources Regulator. EMESRT provided forum participants with an update on the International Council on Mining and Metals and EMESRT leading sites program and the package of EMESRT VI resources materials that…
The first EMESRT mobile equipment fire management and tyre and rim technical working group monthly meeting for 2023 was held on 7 February. What did the attendees hear: There were five dozer rollovers in a week and a half in Queensland Fire management control effectiveness baseline mapping at pilot site completed – Report in development…