Coal mining (especially underground) is considered one of the most hazardous industries, and as a result considerable focus is applied to eliminating or mitigating hazards through careful mine planning, equipment selection and certification, and development of management systems and procedures. Regulatory agencies have developed in-house methods for reporting, classification and tracking of fatalities and other incidents according to the type of event, often including consideration of different hazard types. Unfortunately, direct comparison of mining safety statistics between countries is confounded by considerable differences in the way that individual countries classify specific fatalities or incidents. This paper presents a comparative analysis of coal mining fatality data in Australia, South Africa, India, China and the United States from 2006 to 2010. Individual classification definitions are compared between the five countries, and methods presented to normalise each country’s hazard definitions and reporting regimes around the RISKGATE framework of seventeen different priority unwanted events (or topics). Fatality data from individual countries is then re-classified according to the different RISKGATE topics, thereby enabling a comparative analysis between all five countries. This paper demonstrates the utility and value of a standard classification approach, and submits the RISKGATE framework as a model for classification that could be applied globally in coal mining. RISKGATE is the largest health and safety project ever funded by the Australian coal industry (http://www.riskgate.org) to build an industry body of knowledge to assist in managing common industry hazards. A comprehensive knowledge base has been captured for risk management of tyres, collisions, fires, isolation, strata underground, ground control open cut, explosions, explosives, manual tasks and slips/trips/falls. This has been extended to outburst, coal burst and bumps, interface displays and controls, tailings dams and inrush.

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Comparative analysis of coal fatalities in australia, south africa, india, china and usa, 2006-2010

The major Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) project, RISKGATE has now completed three years of knowledge capture and system development. The body of knowledge for risk management of tyres, collisions, fires, isolation, strata underground, ground control open cut, explosions, explosives underground, explosives open cut, manual tasks and slips/trips/falls was launched in December 2012. Recently, the project added knowledge about outbursts, coal bumps and bursts, human-machine interface, tailings dams, occupational hygiene and inrush to the original 11 topics. In 2014, the project plans (pending ACARP funding approval) to focus on issues around Fitness for Work. RISKGATE provides an environment for knowledge capture and knowledge exchange to drive innovation and cross industry sharing of current practice in the identification, assessment and management of risk. By capturing operational knowledge from industry experts, RISKGATE provides a cumulative corporate memory at a time of high personnel turnover in the coal industry. RISKGATE is the largest single ACARP Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) initiative to date. This paper presents an overview of the first seventeen topics, topic structures, and contrasts and inter-relationships between topics. The second part of the paper discusses some early steps that companies are taking to integrate RISKGATE into their operations; and conclude with some thoughts on where RISKGATE can go in the future.

https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2196&context=coal

RISKGATE and Australian coal operations

Slips, trips and falls are a common cause of occupational injury within Australian coal mines, accounting for approximately 22% of injury compensation claims. Injury severity ranges from medical expenses only, through to significant Lost Time Injuries. Fatalities are rare, but are also potential outcome of slips, trips and falls.RISKGATE is an on-line knowledge management system which assists the coal mining industry to capture and recover knowledge related to safety and health risks. Knowledge regarding initiating events, causes and control measures has been gathered through action research workshops with industry experts and uploaded in the online database for delivery in the form of Bow-Tie analyses across a range of topic areas.Injury narratives reported by all surface and underground coal mines in NSW over a 5 year period (10,252 narratives) were examined to identify those which involved slips, trips, or falls (1,994 narratives). These narratives were subsequently categorized according to the initiating events and causes identified in the RISKGATE Slip/Trip/Falls topic area to gain a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding and factors involved in slips, trips and falls in surface and underground coal mines.Slips, trips and falls injuries were found to occur disproportionately in underground coal mines compared to surface mines, and most occur through slipping or tripping while moving on surfaces, platforms, ramps or stairs. The most common causal factors associated with the loss of balance on surfaces, platforms or stairs was the undertaking of operational tasks. Individual factors were rarely identified as causal factors for any of the initiating events.Slips, trips and falls are prevalent in other high-risk industries, and the RISKGATE body of knowledge could be adapted to assist risk management practices in domains outside coal mining, such as construction, transportation and energy generation.

RISKGATE analysis of slips, trips and falls at NSW surface and underground coal mines

RISKGATE is an interactive online risk management body of knowledge developed by the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre, University of Queensland, to assist the mining industry in implementing continual improvement in management of major unwanted events thus maximising health, safety and operational performance. This body of knowledge generates substantive and leading edge controls to assist mining industry stakeholders in risk assessments, incident investigation, audits and training. The first 11 RISKGATE topics (Collisions, Tyres, Isolation, Strata Underground, Ground Control Open Cut, Fires, Explosions, Explosives Underground, Explosives Open Cut, Manual Tasks, Slips/Trips/Falls) were launched in December 2012. RISKGATE is the largest single Australian Coal Association Research Program occupational health and safety initiative to date. All major Australian coal mining companies are contributing topic experts to this broad industry initiative with over 400 days of industry expert time logged in action research workshops during 2011-2012 to develop the knowledge base for the first 11 topics. From a broader industry perspective, RISKGATE provides knowledge capture and knowledge exchange that will drive industry-wide innovation and best practice in the identification, assessment and management of risk. By capturing operational knowledge from industry experts, RISKGATE provides a cumulative corporate memory at a time of high personnel turnover in the coal industry. There is no reason that the RISKGATE approach and system could not be adapted to knowledge management requirements of a broad range of other high risk industries.

Riskgate: Industry Sharing Risk Controls Across Australian Coal Operations

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RISKGATE y operaciones en minas de carbón en Australia RISKGATE and Australian coal operations

Fires are a common and recurrent unwanted event in the operation of open pit mines. In most cases, the causes of events such as fires are already ‘known’ but are either overlooked or not fully addressed in planning. Ongoing rapid growth of the global mining industry is creating a scarcity of skilled personnel, and high turnover within operations. This contributes to loss of corporate memory in risk management activities.RISKGATE® is an online risk management system designed to support and assist in the analysis of priority unwanted events in Australian coal mining operations. Funded by the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP), RISKGATE® is a knowledge management program that delivers best-practice controls for unwanted events and assists operations in staying abreast of emergent risks and threats. RISKGATE® content has been primarily developed from an association of industry experts, and enriched with input from additional academic and technological resources. In mining operations, RISKGATE® provides a continuum of knowledge and best practice for risk identification, assessment and management. RISKGATE® will assist companies in improving safety performance, operational efficiency, operating practice and training.Here we present the RISKGATE® prototype as developed in 2011 for Fires, with a case study presented for the initiating event Fires on Mobile Plant.

RISKGATE - a case study in application to fires on mobile plant

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