Sharing Safety Critical Control Measures – Bingham Canyon Case Study

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• Personal Author:
  Ross B
• Description:
  All mining operations gain important safety and health learnings during the process of mining, sometimes at a high price in lives lost or significant injury. Applying these learnings is one of the key first steps to identifying the material unwanted events (MUE's) when using ICMM's Critical Control Management (CCM) method to prevent serious events. The CMM method relies on companies being able to identify MUE's as well as ways to control them - even if they have not previously occurred at a site or operation. One method to make the identify MUE's is to use what has happened at other companies and operations. Unfortunately, many companies are hesitant to share their experiences because of risk of legal or financial ramifications. This paper discusses the benefits of sharing health and safety experiences and learnings across the industry to improve the CCM process for all companies. The Bingham Canyon Manefay failure is used as an example of how critical control learnings have been shared and discusses how the industry has benefited. It then proposes a method for companies to share safety information without posing a legal risk to the company sharing the information. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Control Methods Information Dissemination Mine Disasters Mine Safety Mining Industry Safety Measures
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  29
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062815
• Citation:
  2018 SME Annual Meeting Technical Sessions, February 25-28, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2018 Feb; :29
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100901
• Source Full Name:
  2018 SME Annual Meeting Technical Sessions, February 25-28, 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:633d36fdbb6a8a2a527dea686bc52ec80b652cd271164ccf32f4eca400c61a21842287840fbf64dcee215ae0782ec51dc6ab955c052a6341e9de49fa022e9d0b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225997/cdc_225997_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 156.87 KB ]