A Case Study Exploring Field Level Risk Assessments as a Leading Safety Indicator [preprint 17-001]

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• Personal Author:
  Connor BP ; Haas, Emily J. ; Heiser R ; Vendetti J
• Description:
  Health and safety indicators help mine sites predict the likelihood of an event, advance initiatives to control risks, and track progress. Although useful to encourage organizations to work together, executing such risk assessments comes with challenges. This paper focuses on one trona mine's experience in the development and implementation of a field level risk assessment program to help its entire organization understand and manage risk to an acceptable level. Through a transformational process of ongoing support and communication, Solvay Green River fostered a culture of trust and safety grounded in risk assessment, safety interactions, and hazard correction. The application of consistent risk assessment (RA) tools was critical to create a participatory workforce that not only talks about safety, but actively identifies energies that contribute to hazards and potential incidents. In this paper, reflecting on the mine's process of RA implementation provides examples of likely barriers that sites may encounter when trying to document and manage risks. As discussed, consistent efforts to establish a participatory risk management program are worth the initial struggle to ultimately reduce incidents. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Case Reports Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Case Studies Hazard Communication Hazard Controls Mining-industry Risk Assessment Risk Management Safety Culture Safety Measures Safety Programs Worker Safety Work Operations Work Organization Workplace Studies Work Practices

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania ; Wyoming
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049552
• Citation:
  2017 SME Annual Meeting, February 19-22, 2017, Denver, Colorado, preprint 17-001. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2017 Feb; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Trona (Na3H(CO3)2.2H2O) (CAS RN 15243-87-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1fccd428cb84b0ccb71172545e67d7b6b6fb0823d25bda481b5211edcb34b9385197693213b23637ddcca171eb53e98e7954e0081edf389bdfb14fbe3901241c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228388/cdc_228388_DS1.pdf
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