Description
Capital mining projects are a major investment of mine owners and several stakeholders, including contractors.
Good companies in the mining industry want to prevent all injuries. Many feel that one injury,
regardless of severity is too many. While there are healthy debates about the practicality of this,
there is no debate that everyone wants to prevent workplace fatalities and life altering injuries.
Workplace fatalities have a ripple effect which can have a devastating impact to families, crews,
mines, companies, and the industry.
While the mining industry has done a commendable job in reducing Total Recordable Injury
Frequencies through significant effort, the frequency of workplace fatalities in our industry has
largely flat lined.
Mining contractors are often tasked with complex work which can have energy sources that have the
potential to cause fatalities. In many cases, while working for a mining client, a contractor will work
under aspects of the owner’s safety program and standards. A contractor who works across the
country, or even the world has the benefit of being exposed to safety programs from multiple
companies and jurisdictions, providing the opportunity to learn from them and apply them to their
own internal programs.
This paper will discuss Cementation Americas’ experiences of implementing HSE programs at
capital projects and how they can align with those of mine owners and clients to acheive optimal
performance.