SAFETY
RESPONDING TO KEY INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Tis data informs leadership discussions about the step change required to reach the goal of zero fatalities and supports an evidence-based approach to ICMM’s programmatic focus on health and safety. Recently this has included our action on tailings, critical control management and the Innovation for Cleaner, Safer Vehicles (ICSV) initiative, detailed below. Year on year, between 30-40% of all fatalities in the mining and metals industry are the consequence of inadequate vehicle interaction controls, and amongst ICMM members, vehicle interactions were the highest cause of fatalities in 2018. In response, ICMM launched the ICSV initiative, which brings together ICMM’s 28 member companies and 19 OEMs to collaborate in a non-competitive space to accelerate the development of a new generation of cleaner, safer mining vehicles. Te initiative works towards the achievement of three ambitions: introduction of greenhouse gas emission-free surface mining vehicles by 2040; minimising the operational impact of diesel exhaust by 2025; and making vehicle collision avoidance technology available to mining companies by 2025. Published in 2020, Te Global
Industry Standard on Tailings Management requires companies to increase the integration of social and
Fatalities and fatality frequence rate
environmental considerations across the entire lifecycle of each tailings facility. ICMM members have committed that all facilities with ‘Extreme’ or ‘Very high’ potential consequences will be in conformance with the Standard by August 2023, and all other facilities by August 2025. ICMM has also launched a Tailings management: good practice guide that aims to promote good governance and engineering practices that support continuous improvement in the management of new and existing tailings facilities, and to strengthen the ‘safety culture’ within companies.
One of the key strategies developed to
by the industry to focus on the elimination of fatalities and catastrophic events is critical control management (CCM). Tis is based on the principle that not all controls are crucial, but rather companies should focus on systematically identifying, assessing, implementing and evaluating those controls that are essential to the prevention of fatal or catastrophic events. Although CCM is well documented in many high hazard industries, ICMM produced the first consolidated framework for the mining and metals sector that provides advice on how to implement the approach. Effective benchmarking is an
important device for driving performance improvement and a trigger for important conversations across the industry. Te data also helps ICMM to identify the most effective opportunities for collaboration on critical sector challenges such as on tailings and vehicle safety. Tis platform of information sharing and learning has continued to support members through the unprecedented challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic where the health and safety of workers and local communities is paramount. Everyone in the industry has a role to play in eliminating fatalities. Only by working together can this be achieved.
Mark Holmes manages the ICMM’s health & safety work.
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