Mining Safety Fundamentals

By the end

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• Describe the main hazard families found on a mining site and explain how each one causes harm
• Apply the hierarchy of control to a described task and justify why a higher-order control was chosen
• Complete a pre-task check and record hazards and controls in the format your site uses
• Raise a hazard, near-miss or incident report with enough detail for someone else to act on it
• State when to stop work, and what to do immediately after stopping

Curriculum

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6 modules · 35 lessons

1. 01

   Why Mining Sites Cause Harm

   6 lessons
   • The Main Hazard Families on a Mining Site
   • Energy Sources and How They Escape
   • Surface and Underground Hazard Profiles Compared
   • Reading Your Site's Hazard Register
   • How Routine Work Quietly Becomes Non-Routine
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   The Hierarchy of Control

   6 lessons
   • Choosing a Control That Survives a Bad Day
   • Elimination and Substitution in Practice
   • Engineering Controls and Their Failure Modes
   • Administrative Controls: What They Can and Cannot Do
   • Personal Protective Equipment as the Last Line, Not the First
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Duties on Site

   6 lessons
   • Stop-Work Authority: When and How to Use It
   • Duty of Care in Plain Language
   • Worker, Supervisor and Contractor Responsibilities
   • Working Alone and Buddy Checks
   • Visitors, Inductions and Escorted Access
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Pre-Task Risk Checks

   6 lessons
   • Running a Pre-Task Check Before You Start
   • Writing a Hazard in Observable Terms
   • Verifying That Controls Are Actually in Place
   • Changed Conditions and Re-Checking Mid-Task
   • Recording the Check So It Is Useful Later
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Reporting and Learning

   6 lessons
   • Writing an Incident Report Someone Can Act On
   • Near Misses: The Cheapest Lesson Available
   • What Happens After You Report
   • Blame-Free Reporting and Why It Holds Up
   • Following Up on Actions Assigned to You
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Read the site, name the hazard familymatch pairs
   • When you find something unsafe mid-shiftsequence order
   • Controls, duties and reportsfill blank
   • The guard that was left offscenario
   • Course quizquiz

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