Description
The elimination of fatal accidents in activities related to mining operations and projects is one of the major challenges of the mining industry.
Identify the best practices to prevent or eliminate fatal accidents and serious injuries, adapting them to the reality of each company, implementing them, achieving the expected results and sustaining them over time, is what all of us who work in the mining industry are looking for.
In the first years of the 21st century, the mining industry disseminated and began the process of implementing the so-called Fatal Risk Control Protocols, the first management tool to prevent fatal accidents, but limited to the ten (10) activities with the highest frequency of fatalities in the mining industry, which established that any incident with the potential to generate serious injuries or fatalities -which we call High Potential Incidents (HPI)- should be reported, investigated, analyzed and control actions defined with the participation of top management.
The presentation details the process followed in the implementation of / golden Rules of Vision ZERO in an HPI Management Process in a Peruvian mining-metallurgical holding company with operations in Peru and Brazil (open pit, underground and smelters/refineries) and share the results and safety performance over a period of eleven (11) years of implementation of such tool, which allow achieve, nine (9) consecutive years of ZERO FATALITY in the mining operations and projects, which prior to the implementation of the HPI Management had registered an annual average of two (02) fatal .